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

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              idoneum, quo Terra eſſe in centro Mundi, potiuſquàm
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              extra comprobetur; & vel ipſum motum Planetarum
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              excentricum videri planè conuincere non eſſe Terram
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              conſtitutam in centro ſpatiorum, motuúmque cæle­
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              ſtium. </s>
              <s id="s.001882">Nam probare quidem Firmamenti, ſuperio­
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              riſve cæli motum concentricum eſſe, potiuſquàm ex­
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              centricum, ingenij humani viribus eſt maius. </s>
              <s id="s.001883">Acnoui
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              quidem quas rationes Ariſtoteles, Ptolomæus, & alij
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              proferunt: ſed nihil eſt neceſſe heic oſtendere, quàm
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              illæ ſint inefficaces. </s>
              <s id="s.001884">Dum igitur quæris,
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              An Terra illeic
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              conſiſteret?
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              Conſtituram reſpondeo. </s>
              <s id="s.001885">Et, dum præoc­
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              cupas,
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              Qua ratione inductus?
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              Ecce eam iam habes. </s>
              <s id="s.001886">Præ­
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              occupas quoque, cur ita nunc ſuum locum affectet, vt
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              nullis concuſſa motibus ab eo dimoueri valeat? </s>
              <s id="s.001887">Sed
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              affectat, quia nutui Conditoris obſequitur; & in ſta­
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              tione collocata, eam non deſerit, ſed tuetur. </s>
              <s id="s.001888">Non va­
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              let autem dimoueri vllis concuſſa motibus; quia om­
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              nes, quos ſupponis, motus partium ipſius propriarum,
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              cohærentiumque ſunt, neque illam ſecundum ſe totam
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              mouere loco magis poſſunt, quàm animal totum Pul­
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              ſatio vnius arteriæ. </s>
              <s id="s.001889">Et ſunto alicubi magni Terræ­
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              motus; ij tamen ad Terræ molem comparati, tale
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              quid vix ſunt, qualis eſt in nobis pulſatio arteriæ vege­
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              tior, ſi quà in nobis puſtula cum apoſtemate intumeſ­
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              cit. </s>
              <s id="s.001890">Addendum eſt porrò, cùm Mundi ſapientiſſi­
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              mas Artifex omneis eius parteis ita conſtituerit, vt nullo
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              eſſe loco, aut ſitu inter ſe commodiore poſſint: idcir­
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              cò ſi contendas Terram ſuum locum repetituram, vt
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              in quo magis congruè Vniuerſi reſpectu ſit; fore, vt il­
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              lum repetat, non tum propria vi, ſeu grauitate inſita, </s>
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