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

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              dio? </s>
              <s id="s.001551">Quaſi non poſſit motus
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              notabilis
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              eſſe paulò antè
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              medium, aut non-niſi paulò pòſt medium? </s>
              <s id="s.001552">Eſt ne
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              aliquod argumentum, quo probes iſtam tuam cauſſam
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              nihil omninò agere, nihil ſuperare reſiſtentiæ, per tot
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              illas partium ſpatij, temporiſque myriadas, quæ toti
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              priori dimidio tribuuntur, ſtatim autem ac mobile at­
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              tigit primam poſterioris, incipere & agere, & reſiſten­
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              tiam ſuperare?
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              Requiritur,
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              inquis,
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              pars temporis, ac spa­
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              tii non Mathematicè minima, ſed Phyſicè notabilis.
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              <s id="s.001553"> Aduer­
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              ſatiuam hanc non capio: cùm videretur debere pars
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              dici, aut
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              Mathematicè notabilis,
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              aut
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              Phyſicè minima:
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              ſed
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              quicquid ſit, vis eam Phyſicè notabilem eſſe; quid inde
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              concludis?
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              Heinc eſt,
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              inquis,
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              cur accelerationis ratio à
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              primo ſpatii percurren li puncto non tutò inchoetur.
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              <s id="s.001554"> Non
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              tutò inchoetur? </s>
              <s id="s.001555">Imò, vnde tutiùs inchoetur, quàm
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              vnde eſt periculi nihil? </s>
              <s id="s.001556">Nam tibi quidem meritò ef­
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              ficiuntur omnia ſuſpecta, cùm viâ regiâ ſemel relictâ,
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              non valeas ecce, niſi per dumos, ſalebraſque incedere;
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              at verò illis, qui viam tenent, ſimile nihil timendum eſt.
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              <s id="s.001557">Sed nempe platicè aſſumenti, platicè perinde conclu­
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              dendum fuit. </s>
              <s id="s.001558">Sperandum quippe fuerat, vt conclu­
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              deres, cur ante primæ partis medium, ſeu alicubi per
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              totum prius dimidium, acceleratio non inchoaretur; at
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              tu intereà de medio, totove priore dimidio nihil: ſed
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              ſolùm,
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              accelerationem à primo puncto non tutò inchoari.
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              Quod autem addis,
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              ſi iſta cum meis, &
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              G
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              alilei decretis
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              non fortè conueniant, principiis certè Phyſicis aptè congruere;
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              cedò ſolùm, Quibus? </s>
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              Ex his igitur nunc habes, quod numero xl. </s>
              <s id="s.001560">quæris, cur­
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              rationem accelerationis à primo spatii decurrendi puncto non
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