Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              ſecundis, quatenus vſurpas pedes; aut minuto vno, ſe­
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              cudis quinquaginta quatuor, quatenus videris debuiſ­
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              ſe vſurpare cubitos. </s>
              <s id="s.000769">Verum neque video, neque aſſe­
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              quor pernicitatem vllam tantam, qua decidens graue
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              tempore tam breui percurrat tam immane ſpatium,
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              quale continere admittis ducenta milliarium, prope­
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              modum millia. </s>
              <s id="s.000770">Certè, cùm attendo globum tormen­
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              tarium è machina quapiam maiore exploſum vertica­
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              liter, vno circiter pòſt minuto repetitam terram attin­
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              gere, & vix tamen, ex ſupputatis obſeruationibus variis,
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              pertigiſſe ad vnum milliare altitudinis, ex qua vſque
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              recidens dimidium eius temporis, ſeu ſemi-minutum
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              inſumpſerit: (ſæpe enim ſæpiùs obſeruauimus eſſe re­
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              rum grauium ſurſum proiectarum deſcenſum æqui­
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              temporaneum aſcenſui) cùm ad iſtud, inquam, at­
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              tendo, conſideróque ſimul globum per hoc milliare
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              decidere eadem illa velocitate, qua inciperet cadere à
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              Luna; aſſequor quidem euenturum, vt ex Luna deci­
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              dens, & iuxta progreſſionem Arithmeticam numero­
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              rum ab vnitate imparium incedens, decideret altero
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              ſemi-minuto milliaribus tribus, tertio quinque, &
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              quarto ſeptem; adeò vt, ſub finem ſecundi minuti de­
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              prehenderetur decidiſſe milliaribus ſexdecim, ſeu
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              iuxta Galileum, nouemdecim, cum vna quinta millia­
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              ris parte: At quid-nam hoc eſt ad milliarium ducenta
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              millia comparatum? </s>
              <s id="s.000771">Quanquam & iuxta illam tuam,
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              Geometricamve rationem duplam, poſſet res prope
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              verum haberi, quod ad milliaria illa prima, ac minuta
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              duo prima attinet, ſi diceremus eundem globum de­
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              curſurum primo ſemi-minuto milliare vnum, ſecundo </s>
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