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

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              a
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              æſint poſitionum diuerſitates; at verò reſpectu to­
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              torum ipſorum globorum, & ſecluſo animalis ſitu, à
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              quo nihil præter relationem, denominationemve ex­
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              trinſecam habent, nihil eſſe reuerâ ſuperius, aut in­
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              ferius, ſursum, aut deorsùm. </s>
              <s id="s.001872">Et ſecus quidem Ariſtote­
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              les; ſed non ſecus Plato, qui cùm agnoſcat eſſe in
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              Mundo extremum, & medium; contendit tamen non
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              ideò debere aut extremum ſupremum, aut medium
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              inſimum cenſeri. </s>
              <s id="s.001873">Heinc proinde dico, & vnumquem­
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              que Siderum globum in ea parte Mundani ſpatij,
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              quam Deus ab initio ipſi præſcripſit, circumgyrari, &
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              globum Telluris inea parte Mundani ſpatii quieſcere,
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              in qua Deus ipſum initio conſtituit. </s>
              <s id="s.001874">Rem ita eſſe in­
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              telligo, vtſi quis plureis apparet globos ex ea materia,
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              quæ ſub pari mole, fiue ambitu tantum ponderet, quan­
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              tum aqua, & ipſos in aqua quieſcente conſtituat. </s>
              <s id="s.001875">Qui­
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              libet enim eorum globorum, vbicumque fuerit conſti­
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              tutus, ibi conquieſcet; & neque ex ſummo imum
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              petet, neque ex imo ſummum; neque ex vtrouis ex­
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              tremo medium; neque ex medio vtrumvis extre­
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              mum; neque ex medio, extremove locum interce­
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              ptum; neque exloco intercepto medium, aut extre­
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              mum. </s>
              <s id="s.001876">Et ſi ſingas Dædalum, Architam, aut al um
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              artiſicem adeò ingenioſum, vt vno eorum alicubi in­
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              tra aquam conſtituto efficere poſſit alios
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              ,
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              ſeu varios illis circa ipſum obeundos motus indere;
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              ij globi peragent ſuos motus quamcumque ad partem
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              inſtituti fuerint: nempe ſeu prope ſuperficiem, ſeu
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              prope fundum; ſeu ſub medium, ſeu prope medium,
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              ſeu procùl à medio: ſcilicet tam ille, quàm iſti, ob ipſam </s>
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