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

List of thumbnails

< >
291
291
292
292
293
293
294
294
295
295
296
296
297
297
298
298
299
299
300
300
< >
page |< < of 360 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.001929">
                <pb pagenum="258" xlink:href="028/01/298.jpg"/>
              Magnetem ferrum; Tu, qui nihil tale tranſmitti vis,
                <lb/>
              quónam modo fieri hanc incitationem, cum tanto
                <lb/>
              propinqui, & remoti delectu capis? </s>
              <s id="s.001930">Et homo quidem
                <lb/>
              ad hominis amplexum ſeſe incitat, quia eſt animatus,
                <lb/>
              quia videt illum, quia ſpecie ab illo recepta agnoſcit:
                <lb/>
              at in Ferro nihil tale habes; cùm videaris tamen in ipſo
                <lb/>
              præclarius quidpiam agnoſcere, quàm ſimplex quæ­
                <lb/>
              dam cognitio ſit, videlicet Diuinationem. </s>
              <s id="s.001931">Etenim
                <lb/>
              neceſſe eſt prorsùs diuinare Ferrum, quandò Magnes
                <lb/>
              propè, quando procùl ſit, vt vireis metiatur, ac delige­
                <lb/>
              re valeat, è quánam diſtantia in ipſum inſiliat. </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.001932">XVII. </s>
              <s id="s.001933">An dices Magnetem emittere ex ſe non cor­
                <lb/>
              puſcula quidem aliqua, quæ ſint quaſi vncinuli, chor­
                <lb/>
              dulæ tractoriæ, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.001934">ſed vim, ſeu qualitatem quan­
                <lb/>
              dam, quæ ſit merum accidens, quæque vbi ad Ferrum
                <lb/>
              peruenerit, tum ipſum Ferrum veluti ſentiat, ſeſeque
                <lb/>
              ipſum excitet ad accurrendum verſus Magnetem? </s>
              <s id="s.001935">Si
                <lb/>
              dicas, admittes profectò in Ferro ſenſum aliquem, &
                <lb/>
              aliud quidpiam exiges, quàm ſpontaneam incitatio­
                <lb/>
              nem; cauſſam nimirùm extrinſecam, à qua principium
                <lb/>
              internum moueatur, & quæ proinde motus Ferri pri­
                <lb/>
              marium dici principium debeat. </s>
              <s id="s.001936">Sed & de iſta quali­
                <lb/>
              tate, ſeu virtute accidentaria, quanta diffi ultatum ſe­
                <lb/>
              ges? </s>
              <s id="s.001937">Seu enim ſolitaria, & abſque ſubiecto moueatur
                <lb/>
              per ſpatium; ſeu de ſubiecto in ſubiectum per varias
                <lb/>
              parteis aëris, alteriuſve corporis migret; ſeu propaga­
                <lb/>
              tione, hoc eſt, corruptione vnius, & productione al­
                <lb/>
              terius ſucceſſiuè facta in palmaris ſpatij infinitis pun­
                <lb/>
              ctis (aut particulis mauis) innouetur: agnoſcis quàm
                <lb/>
              multa abſurda ſequantur: & vtcúmque tandem iſtam </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>