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

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              ſint à me ſeriò ſcripta:
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              ſed potui non ſeria ſeriò ſcribere;
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              hoc eſt non ioco, ſed vt eruditi, quæ magis ſeria habue­
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              rint, doceant. </s>
              <s id="s.001850">Neque enim eſt, cur exiſtimes iſtis me
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              nugis ita hærere, vt ipſas quaſi veritatem ipſiſſimam
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              habeam, aut colam, ſed cùm totus Mundus ſit nuga­
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              rum plenus, & videre videar nugas quoque eſſe, quæ
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              vulgò habentur ſeria maximè; ſupereſſe exiſtimo, vt
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              eas nugas deligam, quæ eſſe minùs nugæ videantur.
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              <s id="s.001851">Quæris,
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              Ecquid nam proferam, cur non poßint grauia deor­
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              ſum moueri naturâ?
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              Sed protuli primùm illud argumen­
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              tum, quod mox antè repetij. </s>
              <s id="s.001852">Deinde, vnde colligis
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              inficiari me moueri lapidem naturâ? </s>
              <s id="s.001853">Quippe & mo­
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              ueri illum cenſeo non reluctante interna natura; &
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              quam externam adh
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              beo, tum natura eſt, tum ex inſtitu­
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              to naturæ. </s>
              <s id="s.001854">Ad-hæc, non ignoras, quàm nihil ſit ne­
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              ceſſe Philoſophiam excolere, ſiad grauiores difficulta­
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              tes dicere ſufficiat aliquid moueri, aut fieri naturâ. </s>
              <s id="s.001855">Non
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              quòd eò tandem, quæ humana eſt imbecillitas, perue­
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              niendum non ſit; ſed quòd dum nobis non datur vltrà,
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              aliquò tenus prodire ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.001856">Rursùs, dum natura interna
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              mouet, agitve aliquid, id niſi certis organis, agendique
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              modo ſpeciali non præſtat: an verò quis modus is ſit,
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              quæ hæc organa, docent nos ipſi Eruditi? </s>
              <s id="s.001857">In deſcenſu
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              quidem rerum grauium dicunt grauitatem eſſe orga­
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              num, & modum agendi expreſſionem grauitatis: ſed
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              amabo te, quid hæc grauitas? </s>
              <s id="s.001858">Et quid nam præſtat
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              lapidi conſtituto in vacuo? </s>
              <s id="s.001859">Et, quorsum concipitur
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              tanta in ingenti lapide; cum ſecluſa tamen cauſſa exter­
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              na accelerante, & violenta, incapax ſit, quæ per cen­
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              tum annos moueat deorsùm lapidem per vnius digiti </s>
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