Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              omnia cuiuſdam præſtigiatrici artis opus po­
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              tius, quàm vel dæmonum, aut multò minus
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              miracula: ſed tamen quæ admirabilior eſſet,
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              quàm humanâ cogitatione poſſemus eam
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              aſſequi. </s>
              <s id="s.012599">Et niſi plures diuerſas chartas exci­
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              pere aliquando iuſſiſſet, ſuſpicatus fuiſſem
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              cumulum illum ſuppoſuiſſe, qui ex vniuſ­
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              modi chartis conſtaret, veluti geminorum
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              florum. </s>
              <s id="s.012600">Nam ea techna fieret, vt quicunque
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              chartam detraheret, ſemper in eandem inci­
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              dere videretur. </s>
              <s id="s.012601">Sed (vt dixi)varietas reliqua­
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              rum obſtabat. </s>
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              Damauti
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              ſeu Dalmagi
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              Hiſpani præ­
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              ſtigiatoris
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              hiſtoriis.</s>
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              <s id="s.012603">Quicquid ſit, memini me legiſſe hanc ar­
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              tem, háſque præſtigias, è nouo orbe tranſla­
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              tas eſſe, vbi earum miri ſunt artifices. </s>
              <s id="s.012604">Certum
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              eſt, antiquos authores non cognouiſſe, aut
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              adoraſſe: vt apud Pharaonem, & de Simone
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              Mago legitur. </s>
              <s id="s.012605">Cúmque tam mirabilis ſit hæc
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              ars, attamen nullo in pretio habetur, cùm vel
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              coquus, non vulgaris aliquam retineat exi­
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              ſtimationem. </s>
              <s id="s.012606">Cauſa multiplex eſt, vt opinor:
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              primò, quòd circa inutilia verſetur. </s>
              <s id="s.012607">Secundò,
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              quòd à vilibus hominibus tractetur. </s>
              <s id="s.012608">Tertiò,
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              quòd diuinitatis olim præſidio inniterentur,
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              nunc deſtituta ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.012609">Accedit quòd legibus dam­
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              netur: quodque decepti olim Principes dum
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              fruſtra ſperarent, contemptui expoſiti ſint.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.012610">Etenim quid iuuat, aut ignem vorare, aut
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              efflare? </s>
              <s id="s.012611">Nam aut qui vorant illum, prius col­
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              lecta ſub lingua ſaliua extinguunt: qui
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              efflant, cotto & ſtupæ inuoluunt. </s>
              <s id="s.012612">Audaciæ
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              potius hæc ſunt portenta quàm ingenij. </s>
              <s id="s.012613">Infi­
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              nita ſunt huius artis inuenta, transferre, oc­
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              culere, vorare, ex oculis, è fronte humorem
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              copioſum elicere, ab ore clauos, filúmque
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              educere, vitrum mandere, brachia, manúſve
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              ſtylo penetrare, nectere cathenas ferreas cir­
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              culis integris manentibus, imò quod maius
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              eſt ſurſum proiectos tres annulos deſcendere
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              vidi inuicem implicitos, cùm integri eſſent
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              & ſeparati antequàm, & dum proiiceren­
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              tur: formas varias in vno, eodémque libel­
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              lo oſtendunt, ſemper prioribus abſcenden­
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              tibus: enſem ab acie nudo ventre, vſque
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              ad capulum premendo flectunt, alij ab dere
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              illum, & abſcondere penetrantem videntur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.012614">Puerum ſine capite, caput ſine puero oſten­
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              dunt, viuunt tamen omnia, & nihil detri­
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              menti puer patitur interim. </s>
              <s id="s.012615">Iam ſi enume­
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              rem, quot, quantáque ſtatuis ligneis paruis,
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              magatellos vocat vulgus, dies me deficiet.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.012616">Nam ludunt, pugnant, venantur, ſaltant,
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              tuba canunt, coquinariam exercent artem,
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              atque hæc omnia, vt mirabilia ſunt, ita nul­
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              lius (vt dixi) vilitatis, & cùm reſciueris ra­
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              tionem qua oculos fallunt, ea autem duobus
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              conſtat inſtrumentis variis ad hoc paratis,
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              manuumque agilitate, nec ſi te docere velint
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              precariò digneris diſcere. </s>
              <s id="s.012617">Solùm quæ in ore
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              abſcondunt ratione naturali conſtant, nam
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              latent poſt columellam in quodam amplo
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              ſpatio, quòd aſperam arteriam, atque gulam,
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              & os palati interiacet: alij verò etiam vo­
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              rant, & cùm volunt, euomunt, longa conſue­
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              tudine adiuti. </s>
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              Cur iocula
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              riæ artis pe­
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              riti nullo in
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              pretio ha­
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              beantur.</s>
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              Ioculariæ
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              artis opera.</s>
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              Quomodo in
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              ore res oc­
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              cultent.</s>
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              <s id="s.012621">Fingunt alij vulnera adeò ad viuum, vt
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              chirurgos fallant. </s>
              <s id="s.012622">In manus dorſo fruſtrum
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              maſſæ tenuis fidibus interpoſitis compla­
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              nant: diuidunt gladio ad cutim vſque rimas
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              ſanguine recenti ſpargunt, miraberis. </s>
              <s id="s.012623">Talia
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              multa vir Græcus amicus noſter propoſita
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              mercede docebat. </s>
              <s id="s.012624">Nuper Phratrius quidam
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              Mantuanus ſenex, Petro Mariæ Locarno im­
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              poſita ſecuri, quàm nuper acuerat, ſuper cu­
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              tem è regione lienis claua ferrea, quàm dex­
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              tra habebat ponderis librarum duodecim,
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              cùm ſecurim ſiniſtra continet ſex magnis
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              ictibus (dictu incredibile ) vna die percuſſit,
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              ſequenti tribus, nec diuiſit cutim: ſed tamen
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              ſecuris acies quaſi rimam reliquit. </s>
              <s id="s.012625">Intus ve­
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              rò in ſubiectis membris, rugarum inſtar, il­
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              lata vulnera deprehendebantur. </s>
              <s id="s.012626">Dedit &
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              hic egregius vir vomitorium medicamen­
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              tum, quo penè peremit hominem, nec tamen
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              venter detumuit, nec lien ſolutus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012627">Conſtat
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              igitur cedente ventre, & percutientis dexte­
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              ritate, non verbulis illis miſeris, quæ ob­
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              murabat, interim non penetraſſe ſecurim:
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              forſitan & aciei clam obducta cera. </s>
              <s id="s.012628">Omnia
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              credas potius, quàm miraculum, quòd irri­
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              tum ſit: aut præcantationem, vel dæmonas,
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              vbi non illuſio ſenſuum, ſed res feria agitur,
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              ſeu quid diuiditur, aut frangitur, aut non fit
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              cùm fieri debeat, aut transfertur, dæmonas
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              carneos ipſis veris dæmonibus callidiores
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              eſſe ſcito. </s>
              <s id="s.012629">Verùm qui venena deuorant, & ſi
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              fraude ſæpe id fingant, periculoſiore tamen
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              exemplo, ac quod multis malè ceſſit, agunt.
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              <s id="s.012630">Ipſi tamen circulatores, præſtigiis ſi locus
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              non ſit, copioſo prius ingeſto butyro aduer­
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              ſum ea ſe muniunt. </s>
              <s id="s.012631">Alij tractant ſerpentes,
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              ſed vel innoxios, vel exenteratis prius den­
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              tibus, vel fame prius maceratos, vel frigo­
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              re torpentes, vel educatos familiariter. </s>
              <s id="s.012632">Vn­
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              de aliis temeritatem ſolùm ſine auxilio ad­
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              dunt, hiſque exemplis egregiè ſimplicibus
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              viris, tum pueris nocent, exponúntque pe­
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              riculis, vnde iure circulatores, ſycophantæ­
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              que ac impoſtores dicuntur, & infames ha­
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              bentur. </s>
              <s id="s.012633">Et nunc etiam aliquibus in vrbi­
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              bus puniuntur, tanquam malum abſque
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              nono afferentes. </s>
              <s id="s.012634">Sunt qui temere perculſos
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              diuino afflatu ſe fingant, res prorſus mira
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              ob perſeuerantiam, quàm conſuetudine ſibi
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              pararunt. </s>
              <s id="s.012635">Alij ſunt è minorum genere, &
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              ſaltatores, qui præterquàm quòd ſint inno­
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              xij: etiam delectant plurimùm, nec hi legibus
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              vllibi prohibentur. </s>
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              <s id="s.012636">Audaciores his ſunt, quos funambulos
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              vocamus. </s>
              <s id="s.012637">Iam verò in iſtis, artis aliquid
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              eſt, & naturalis rationis plus: propterea
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              de illis tractare incipiam, quaſi ab initio
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              naturalis magiæ originem ducens. </s>
              <s id="s.012638">Eſt enim
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              magia, cùm rationibus naturalibus, occul­
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              tis tamen aliquid mirabile perficitur. </s>
              <s id="s.012639">Er­
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              go funambulorum ratio hæc eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012640">Vir au­
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              dax & exercitatus ſuper funem diſtentum
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              admodum, nudis pedibus inambulat, dex­
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              tra læuáque pondus decem, aut quindecim,
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              vel etiam 20. librarum plumbeum conti­
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              net, cùm ad dextram inclinatur intentus
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              operi ( ob hoc audaciſſimum eſſe oportet)
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              ſiniſtram intendit, ac extendit, remittit ac
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              contrahit dextram, ita antequàm vi dex­
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              tra præponderet ſiniſtræ, pondera æquat,
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              & corpus reducit ad æquilibrium, inde
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              ſenſim & pondera, & brachia priſtino ſta­
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              tui reſtituit. </s>
              <s id="s.012641">Hoc autem neceſſarium eſt:
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              nam antequàm caſurus ſit, oportet partem
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              alteram altera certa proportione pondere </s>
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