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

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              defectu firmitudinis, reſiſtentiæque in aëre, propter in­
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              nixum, ſine quo non videtur fieri poſſe incitatio: quid
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              eſt, cur, vt homo, dum ſurſum effertur, arguit eſſe à
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              quo trahatur, non ſic Ferrum arguat, dum ſursùm ef­
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              fertur? </s>
              <s id="s.001948">Ac dum homo quidem trahitur ab homine,
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              communis eſt notio, debere id fieri aut manu demiſſa,
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              aut chorda, aut vncino, aut alio ſimili inſtrumento:
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              cur & dum Ferrum à Magnete; putemus id fieri abſque
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              organo vllo intercepto? </s>
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              <s id="s.001949">XVIII. Sugillas, quòd hæc organa dicuntur à me
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              inſenſilia.
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              <s id="s.001950"> Sed nempe, ſi ſenſilia eſſent, in ijs diſqui­
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              rendis non laboraremus. </s>
              <s id="s.001951">Quod inſenſilia verò dican­
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              tur, non ideò tamen nulla ſunt; magiſquam nulli non
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              ſunt vitales, animaleſque ſpiritus, qui licet inſenſiles
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              ſint, cauſſæ ſunt tamen tot motuum, quos in animali­
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              bus obſeruamus. </s>
              <s id="s.001952">Sed nihil ſanè neceſſe eſt inductio­
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              nem texam innumerarum rerum inſenſilium, oculiſve
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              imperceptarum, quas tamen & dari, & vehementibus
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              motibus præditas eſſe ambigat nemo. </s>
              <s id="s.001953">Nihil etiam
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              neceſſe eſt, vt argumenta congeram, quibus huiuſce­
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              modi rescontexi ex corpuſculis inſenſibilibus quidem,
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              ſed præditis nihilominùs ſpecialibus figuris, probem.
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              <s id="s.001954">Nihil prætereà, vt vrgeam ex attractionis effectu ar­
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              gui, organa illa inſenſilia debere analoga eſſe, aut ſi­
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              mile quidpiam habere cum ijs, quibus attractiones
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              ſenſibiliùs fiunt; quòd à ſenſibilioribus ad inſenſibilio­
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              ra procedendo ſeruari videamus analogiam: quódque
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              mens humana non capiat attractionem fieri, & ratione
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              quadam cum his ſenſibilibus analoga non fieri. </s>
              <s id="s.001955">Ni­
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              hil, inquam, neceſſe eſt, vt hæc, & ſimilia quædam </s>
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