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

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              dinem adnotatum iri: ita mihi huc-vſque ſucceſſere
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              multa experimenta haud abſimilia. </s>
              <s id="s.001775">Dico autem arcu­
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              baliſtam eſſe debere illigatam; quoniam ſi manu con­
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              tineatur, poterit linea directionis aut perpendicularis
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              non eſſe, aut ſi à perpendiculari deflexerit, non per­
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              inde vno, atque alio caſu deflecti: ob quam eandem
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              cauſſam agi currus debet per complanatiſſimum lo­
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              cum; ne, ſi ſubſultârit, linea illa nutet. </s>
              <s id="s.001776">Prætereo au­
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              tem, ſi tot illis, quæ congeſſi, experimentis quæſitam
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              fidem aliquam putes primatio illi Theoremati,
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              Si id
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              corpus, cui innitimur, transferatur, motus omneis noſtros, re­
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              rumque à nobis mobilium perinde fieri, appareréque, ac ſi il­
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              lud quieſceret:
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              quæſitam ſimul eſſe
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              Paradoxo,
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              quod
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              magnum
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              appellas,
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              de aſſurgente mobili ad parem altitudi­
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              nem, ſeu moueatur, ſeu quieſcat motor, qui id emiſerit pari
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              vi;
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              alioquin certè motus rerum à nobis mobilium pa­
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              ri modo haud apparerent. </s>
              <s id="s.001777">Quanquam & Paradoxum
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              dicis ob id ſolùm, quòd res prima fronte adeò admi­
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              rabilis ſit, vt niſi quis expertus fuerit, fidem facilè ha­
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              bere non poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.001778">Quòd denique tibi hæret ſcrupulus
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              de globo tormentario, qui caſu perpendiculari recidens in ter­
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              ram, & in eam directe emiſſus, parem percußionis effectum
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              ſortiri poſſe non videatur,
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              is, quandò ratio non ſufficit,
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              experimento eſt
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              lege
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              eximendus. </s>
              <s id="s.001779">Quan quam ego quidem, vt
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              fatear, ſatis hucuſque fœlix non fui, vt rem piſtoleto,
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              moſquetóque explorare volens, obſeruare potuerim
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              caſum (adeò pernix efficitur recidentis prope terram
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              motus: adeó que difficile eſt declinationem tantulam
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              à perpendiculo cauere, quæ in altitudine tanta para­
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              bolen creet cum diſtentione crurum inſigni, & verſus </s>
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