Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              bit vltra A C, & minùs, quàm per duplum
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              AC. </s>
              <s id="s.012570">Idem dico de iactu lapidis, quia primò
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              defertur per circuli circumferentiam quaſi
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              æquidiſtantem AC: impetus non poteſt age­
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              re vltra duplum ſui roboris, ideò fertur per
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              circumferentiam æqualem priori, hæc autem
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              ſubtendit ſimum minorem A C, igitur non
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              poterit transferri vltra C, per tantum ſpa­
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              tium, quantum eſt A C, quod demonſtran­
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              dum. </s>
              <s id="s.012571">Si igitur AD, ſit multò maior AC, erit
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              punctus E, ſaltus, quaſi diſtans duplo CA,
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              à puncto A: cum verò AD, fuerit minor AC,
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              erit E, punctus diſtans ab A, puncto minùs
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              duplo AC, imò minùs, quam per DA, &
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              AC, iunctas, & magis, quàm per DC, li­
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              neam. </s>
              <s id="s.012572">Quæſitum ſimiliter eſt, cur aſcenden­
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              tibus nobis adeò crura fatigentur, & homo
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              frequentius anhelet? </s>
              <s id="s.012573">Diſcrimen autem aſ­
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              cenſus, & plani haud lene eſt, imò in 500.
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              paſſibus plus homo aſcendendo affligitur,
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              quàm in plani 4000. Cauſa laboris in aſcen­
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              dendo per acliuia triplex eſt, prima quidem
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              communis omni motui, quoniam muſculi, &
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              membra omnia mouentur. </s>
              <s id="s.012574">Secunda, quæ aſ­
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              cendentibus per ſcalas etiam conuenit, eſt
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              quia cogitur eleuare corpus tanta altitudine,
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              quantus eſt gradus: corpus autem graue, gra­
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              uis, autem eleuatio laborioſa. </s>
              <s id="s.012575">In plano verò
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              aliquantiſper etiam eleuatur corpus, ſed adeò
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              parùm, vt vix ſentiatur. </s>
              <s id="s.012576">Ideò gradus ſcala­
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              rum quò altiores, eò aſcenſus magis fatigat.
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              <s id="s.012577">Tertia cauſa, propria eſt ſitui accliui. </s>
              <s id="s.012578">Homo
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              enim cùm non rectè quieſcat, niſi planis pe­
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              dibus, & accliui ſuperficies non æquidiſtet
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              centro terræ, cogitur, & dum aſcendit, &
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              ſtat, nixu magno ſe continere, quoniam pe­
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              dum plantæ non quieſcent: cogitur igitur
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              homo è tribus vnum facere, vel ſoli pedum
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              anteriori parti inſiſtere, vel anterius totum
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              inclinare corpus, aut maxima diſtentione
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              muſculorum, quod laborioſiſſimum eſt ſe
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              continere. </s>
              <s id="s.012579">Ob id maximum cenſetur roboris
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              experimentum, erecto corpore, & planis aſ­
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              cendere pedibus per accliuia. </s>
              <s id="s.012580">Manifeſtum
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              eſt autem, quòd quantò magis accliue, eò
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              difficilius longè, nec æquali ſeruata propor­
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              tione. </s>
              <s id="s.012581">Hæc igitur talia circa artes mira con­
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              ſtant ſubtilitate, ſed artium nulla in ſubtili­
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              tate ioculariæ, multò minùs magis conferri
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              poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012582">Quamobrem, vt de mirabilium cauſis
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              agam, iam tempus eſt. </s>
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              Hirundines
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              hyeme vbi
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              latent.</s>
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              Ratio ſal­
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              tuum.</s>
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              Cur homo
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              æſcendendo
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              adeò fatige­
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              tur.</s>
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              Roboris ma­
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              ximum expe­
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              rimentum.</s>
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              LIBER DECIMVSOCTAVVS,
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              De Mirabilibus, & modo repræſentandi
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              res varias præter fidem.
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              <s id="s.012589">MEMINI enim, cùm Carolus V.
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              Cæſar feliciſſimus, Mediola­
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              num veniſſet, Principe Fran­
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              ciſco Sfortia, eius nominis ſe­
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              cundo, Hiſpanum fuiſſe in co­
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              mitatu Cæſaris, nomine Damautum, vel
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              Dalmagum, qui adeò mira faceret, perſtrin­
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              gerétque tam aptè oculos videntium, vt qui
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              Philoſophiæ expertes eſſent, ipſum pro ma­
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              go haberent. </s>
              <s id="s.012590">Nec talem, vt intellexi noſtra
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              ſecula, aut antiquiora multò viderunt: nam
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              inaudita, & incredibilia faciebat. </s>
              <s id="s.012591">Nuper ag­
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              nouit Franciſcum Somam Neapolitanum
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              nobilem adoleſcentem, quem conſtat vix vi­
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              geſimum ſecundum annum attingere, qui
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              præter Muſicæ artis ſingularem peritiam,
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              adeò vt etiam in cheli pulſanda parem non
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              habeat, multarum præſtigiarum ac ſupra fi­
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              dem gnarus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012592">Atque inter cæteras, quam
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              ego ſæpiùs vidi, aliique amici noſtri, cuiuſ­
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              que naturalem rationem nunquam excogi­
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              tare potui, hanc faciebat. </s>
              <s id="s.012593">Spargebat chartas
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              in menſa, ſic tamen vt cumulus non diſſolue­
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              retur, iubebátque vnam nos excipere atque
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              abſcondere, inde accepto cumulo miſcebat
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              illas, diuinabátque, quænam eſſet: ſed hoc
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              forſan agilitati manuum tribui potuerat:
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              verùm, quòd ſequitur, nequaquàm: nam de­
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              nuò charta cumulo inſerta, eóque depoſito
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              iubebat alium atque alium chartam excipe­
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              re: primum qui extraxerat, eandem ſemper
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              extraxiſſe cognouimus, quaſi vel nos ad id
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              cogeret, vt eandem caperemus, aut faciem
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              rei immutaret. </s>
              <s id="s.012594">Cúmque virum ſolertem ac
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              Epicureum ſpectaculo adhibuiſſem, faſſus eſt
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              is, ſe non aſſequi modum quo id fieri poſſet:
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              quanquam non propter id exiſtimaret, con­
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              fiteri oportet aliquam eſſe vim in his infe­
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              rioribus, præter eam
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              cernimus à natura
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              rebus inditam. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Itaq;">Itaque</expan>
              hic noſtram omnem di­
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              ligentiam fallebat, &
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              ſuperauit. </s>
              <s id="s.012596">Ob­
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              murmurabat autem quædam perpetuò dum
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              hæc ageret quaſi ſupputaret: cùm tamen
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              certum eſſet, id nulla numerorum ratione
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              conſtare. </s>
              <s id="s.012597">Quin cùm ſociùs ille noſter, char­
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              tam quam detraxerat antequàm libro ſup­
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              poneret, inſpexiſſet, inquit Soma, Confudiſti
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              omnia, ordinemque meum perueniſti: ſed ta­
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              men charta eadem eſt, quàm prius detraxe­
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              ras, ſcilicet bini flores, atque ita eſſe depre­
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              hendimus. </s>
              <s id="s.012598">Et quanquam quædam mihi ma­
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              gis mira oſtenderit, indicia tamen erant eſſe </s>
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