Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              proximorem illi non incertum, ſed ex ge­
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              nere fabricare, non reluctante materia. </s>
              <s id="s.009853">Ob
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              id cum materia diuerſarum partium fuerit,
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              monſtrum, multiforme generabitur: cùm
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              verò admodum inutilis, penitus informe.
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              <s id="s.009854">Ob id quæ omninò forma carent, vita pau­
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              lò meliore plantæ viuunt, & ſtatim inte­
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              reunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009855">Cùm verò mod cùm pars materiæ à
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              proprio temperamento diſtiterit, paruus fit
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              error in ea parte: velut nobilis virgo in gy­
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              næcio Lucemburgenſis Principis os duplex
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              loco dentium habuit nec quicquam aliud
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              inſigne præter egregiam morum grauita­
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              tem conſecutum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009856">Qua de cauſa dubitari
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              ſolet, an monſtra aliquid ſemper præmon­
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              ſtrent. </s>
              <s id="s.009857">Melanchthon vir eruditus refert, an­
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              te bellum, quod Cæſar contra Germanos
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              geſſit, natum in Francorum pago infantem
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              ac protinus gladium apparuiſſe ex vtero
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              puerperæ prominentem, qui nulla arte an­
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              tequam ſuppuraretur vterus extrahi potuit.
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              <s id="s.009858">Idque prodigium, bellum ciuile Germaniæ
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              oſtendiſſe, quòd gladius ex vtero, & viſceri­
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              bus prodiret. </s>
              <s id="s.009859">Sed quomodo gladius? </s>
              <s id="s.009860">Exiſti­
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              mo materiam fuiſſe duram, & colore ferro
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              ſimilem, nam ferrum eſſe non potuit. </s>
              <s id="s.009861">Ve­
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              rùm an ſemper talia aliquid præſagiant, ad
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              libros de Æternitatis arcanis, demonſtrare
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              pertinet. </s>
              <s id="s.009862">Frequens eſſet prænuncìatio in
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              Ægypto, quum frequentia ſint monſtra.
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              <s id="s.009863">Cauſa duplex eſt: primum, quod fœminæ
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              plures vno partu edunt infantes: ob id tum
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              ex imbecillitate, tum ex concuſſione fœtum
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              inuicem plurima degenerant à natura pro­
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              pria, & in monſtra tranſeunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009864">Viuunt etiam
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              facillimè monſtra tam in vtero, quàm ex­
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              tra, ob aëris ſalubritatem, vnde etiam ibi
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              naſcuntur octimeſtres: & ob id in Ægypto
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              plura ex mulieribus tum aliis animalibus
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              monſtra naſcuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.009865">Cauſa igitur genera­
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              tionis monſtrorum eſt facilitas genera­
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              tionis, vnde in plantis frequentiſſima
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              fiunt, pòſt vilioribus animalibus: poſt in
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              nobilibus, & fœcundis, vltimò in perfe­
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              ctis, & parùm fœcundis, vt homine, &
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              elephante, rariſſima fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009866">Accedunt his
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              concubitus monſtroſi, imagines abſurdæ, &
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              prauitas temperaturarum. </s>
              <s id="s.009867">Atque ob id
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              quamuis fruſtrà, tales partus in Dei iram
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              referuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.009868">Fiunt & monſtroſi homines no­
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              bilitate ac perfectione, ſeu prophetæ dican­
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              tur, ſeu ſapientes, vel ob parentum egre­
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              giam naturam, aut cometas, & conſtellatio­
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              nes, ſeu ſyderum concurſus præcedentes, aut
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              quia natura multorum membrorum vim in
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              vnum tranſtulit. </s>
              <s id="s.009869">Ob id factum eſt, vt hi mi­
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              nus quandoque opere valeant. </s>
              <s id="s.009870">Vnde fit tum
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              ob hoc, tum quia inuentores circa inuen­
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              tionem fatigantur, vt inclyti viri maiores
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              ſeipſis fama, & operibus diſcipulos relin­
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              quant, vt Socrates Platonem, Plato Ari­
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              ſtotelem, Ariſtoteles Theophraſtum. </s>
              <s id="s.009871">Quod
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              & Chriſtus docuit, dicens: Hæc & maiora
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              his facietis. </s>
              <s id="s.009872">Non eſt diſcipulus maior ma­
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              giſtro. </s>
              <s id="s.009873">Sed quum homines ſint veluti tym­
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              pana, quæ niſi pulſentur, nihil ſunt, pul­
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              ſata homines etiam nolentes, in ſui trahunt
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              admirationem, conuenit vt qui velut aliquo
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              eſſe in numero, vt omnia verſet, & aſſiduè
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              omnia iactet. </s>
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              Monſtra cur
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              in vtero vi­
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              uant, nata
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              non.</s>
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              Quæ
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              viuant, quæ
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              non.</s>
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              Cur rarò
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              monſtra
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              abortiantur.
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              <s id="s.009877">Monſtra an
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              ex intento
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              fine.</s>
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              Monſtra an
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              aliquid præ­
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              monſtrent
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              ſemper.</s>
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              Cur in Ægy­
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              pto monſtra
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              plura.</s>
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              Cauſæ gene­
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              rationis
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                ſtrorum</expan>
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              Homines in­
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              clyti maio­
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              res operibus
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              profeſſores re
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              linquunt.
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              <s id="s.009882">Modus quo
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              quis magnus
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              euadat.</s>
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              <s id="s.009883">Hoc cum faciant clarorum virorum
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              alumni, alioquin haud imperiti, earum re­
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              rum, quas illi inuenerunt, ob hoc ſucceſſo­
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              res magnorum virorum maiores habentur
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              ipſis inuentoribus. </s>
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              <s id="s.009884">Iam tandem ſupereſt, vt cum de omnibus
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              dixerimus, de ipſo principio etiam agamus:
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              dico autem corde. </s>
              <s id="s.009885">Videtur tamen princi­
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              pium multipliciter dici: aut originis, velut
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              ſemen: aut generationis, vt primæ arteriæ,
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              & venæ, quæ ad vmbilicum terminantur,
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              cuius gratia etiam referunt, eos, qui in
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              Ægypto ſupplicij cauſa excoriantur, non
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              prius mori, quàm excoriato vmbilico. </s>
              <s id="s.009886">Ne­
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              que liberum eſſe carnifici, niſi conceſſa ve­
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              nia locum eum excoriare, vt diutius dam­
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              natus crucietur. </s>
              <s id="s.009887">Cauſa huius igitur eſt, quo­
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              niam iam excoriatus ſpiritum vndequaque
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              exhalauit, ſed non confertim, confertim au­
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              tem per vmbilicum, quia peritonæum per­
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              foratum ibi eſt propter vaſa generationis.
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              <s id="s.009888">itaque eo demùm excoriato debilis iam
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              factus homo protinus extinguitur. </s>
              <s id="s.009889">Eſt &
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              principium motus, vt cerebrum: aut gene­
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              randi, quod generationis principio prius
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              eſt, vt teſticuli: tum aliis modis dicitur, ſed
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              omnium & verè principium eſt cor: de illo
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              igitur tanquam primo, maioréque dignum
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              admiratione nunc dicendum erit. </s>
              <s id="s.009890">Quomo­
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              do enim moueatur, & in amoribus ſubſiliat
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              ac palpitet, ſatis dubitatum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009891">Verùm mo­
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              tus hic naturalis eſt: ſi enim voluntati non
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              paret, non eſt voluntarius: ſi principium
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              functionum non fatiſcit, non eſt violentus:
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              naturalis igitur eſt: at naturalis alius ſimplex
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              alius compoſitus, dilatatur à facultate, & ab
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              ea etiam conſtringitur, non ſpontè conſi­
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              det: nam & lentè conſtringitur in debilibus:
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              & ſequitur fuliginoſi aëris abundantiam
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              conſtrictio: igitur compoſitus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009892">An igitur
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              calor, an anima? </s>
              <s id="s.009893">Melius eſt igitur calorem
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              dicere, vt inſtrumentum, animam autem
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              vt primum mouens
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              neque enim calor in
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              contraria diducere aliquid poteſt, anima ve­
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              rò poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009894">Similis igitur eſt cœli motui, &
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              quòd ab anima, & quòd reditum habet, &
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              quia nunquam ceſſat, & æqualis eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009895">Sed ta­
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              men hic compoſitus extractu, & impulſu,
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              ille ſimplex: hic non circularis, ſed à cen­
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              tro, & ad centrum, ille circularis: hic pro
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              affectibus mutatur, ille eſt abſque muta­
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              tione: hic medio caloris fit, ille ab anima
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              ipſa: reliquæ differentiæ inter hunc, & il­
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              lum ſunt mortalitatis detrimenta. </s>
              <s id="s.009896">Porrò ani,
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              mi affectus calorem mouent, inde inſtru­
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              mento moto cordis corpus moueri neceſſe
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              eſt, ita ex ſolis animi affectibus totum cor­
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              pus manifeſtè immutatur. </s>
              <s id="s.009897">Affectus verò ipſi
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              ad nos per ſenſus adueniunt, de quibus nunc
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              dicendum eſt. </s>
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