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

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              quàm à cæteris partibus, quarum proprium locum oc­
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              cupârit, compulſa; eo modo, quo trabs, ſi deprimatur
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              in fundum maris, ſuperficiem repetet, non ſanè vi
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              propria, ſeu leuitate ingenita: ſed compulſa ab aqua,
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              cuius occupauerit locum. </s>
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              <s id="s.001891">XIV. </s>
              <s id="s.001892">Quod ſpectat ad aliam fictionem, ſecundum
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              quam me interrogas,
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              Quid euenturum putem, ſi in ipſo
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              Terræ meditullio concamerata cauerna fiat, & aqua, aëreve
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              oppleatur: lapis verò conſtituatur, non in eius, Terræque
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              centro, ſed loco inter centrum, & fornicem medio?
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              Dico
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              breuiter, probabile eſſe, vt ſi Terra ſit quaſi Magnes,
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              tractorios radios quoquo versùm, ac in illam etiam
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              cauernam diffundens; fore vt lapis attrahatur verſus
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              eam fornicis partem, è qua ad ipſum radij plures, vni­
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              tioreſque peruenerint; &, ſi ſupponas peruenire ex
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              æquo, ac vndelibet, fore, vt illeic inter æquas vndique
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              vireis contineatur, eo modo, quo fabula eſt Moham­
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              medis ſepulcrum ſuſpendi. </s>
              <s id="s.001893">Sed, ſi lapidem quidem
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              attrahi contingat ad proximum: fornicem,
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              Cur igitur,
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              inquis,
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              per puteum dimiſſus lapis à viciniore item Terra ille­
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              ctus, attractuſque ad putei latera non adhæreſcit?
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              Cauſſa
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              eſt, quia plures, vnitioreſque radij è maiore Terræ
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              mole, quæ eſt verſus centrum, concurrunt in lapidem,
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              quàm ad eum accurrant ex ipſis putei lateribus.
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              Sed
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              ipſamet Terra,
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              inquis,
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              rupto ſornice ad centrum deſcende­
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              ret, leuioraque inde corpora expelleret?
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              Verùm, niſi fortè
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              ſupponas qua vi excauatus fornix fuerit, eadem poſteà
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              ipſum abrumpi; ego quidem non video, qua id ratione
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              dicere poſſi
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              ; qui ne video quidem tot ſubterraneos
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              fornices rumpi, vt aqua, aut aër inde abigantur, & quæ </s>
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