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

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              à ſua ſemita exturbandam inefficaceis. </s>
              <s id="s.001866">Dico ergo po­
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              tiùs probabile eſſe, fore, vt eo caſu Tellus quieſcat, vbi­
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              cum que Deus, Angeluſve conſtituerit ipſam. </s>
              <s id="s.001867">Scilicet
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              concipio quicquid eſt ſpatiorum non modò intra cir­
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              cuitum Lunæ, ſed etiam intra ambitum, concamera­
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              tionemve ſiue Firmamenti, ſiue etiam Mundi, eſſe li­
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              berum, ac ſaltem quod ſpectatad totam regionem Pla­
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              netariam, nullam dari ſoliditatem earum, quæ tredun­
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              tur, Sphærarum cæleſtium. </s>
              <s id="s.001868">Sunt certè tum rationes
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              aliæ, tum maximè Phaſes illę Veneris, quæ ipſam nunc
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              vltra, nunc citra Solem eſſe conuincunt. </s>
              <s id="s.001869">Et poſſet
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              quidem totum hoc ſpatium intra Mundi ambitum
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              concipi inane, niſi quà globi Siderum, ac Telluris ſunt,
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              & quatenus radij ſiderum variè
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              : ſed lar­
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              giri placet quam vulgò Atheream auram nuncupant;
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              ſubſtantiam nempe tenuiſſimam, & aëre hoc noſtro
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              incomparabiliter ſubtiliorem, quæ pari modo diffuſa
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              ſit, totumque ſpatium occupet, niſi qui ijdem globi
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              ſunt; etiam Telluris, cuius aër, & aqua ſunt tenuiores,
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              fluidiores, ac exteriores
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              partes. </s>
              <s id="s.001870">Concipio aliunde,
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              quod legiſti fuſiùs deductum in Epiſtolis, non Tellu­
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              rem magis, quàm Siderum vllum, eſſe ex ſe grauem,
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              aut leuem: ſed grauitatem, ac leuitatem eſſe affectio­
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              nes partium proprias, quatenus partes ſunt, & à ſuo
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              toto diſtrahi quadam tenùs poſſunt: quo eodem mo­
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              do partes Lunæ, & cuiuſvis Mundani globi eſſe poſ­
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              ſunt graues, aut leues abſque grauitate, aut leuitate to­
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              tius. </s>
              <s id="s.001871">Quare & poſſe quidem dici eſſe aliquid ſupe­
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              riùs, & inferiùs, ſursùm, & deorsùm, reſpectu partium
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              cuiuſque globi, & comparatè ad animal, cuius illæ, & </s>
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