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

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              proſequar, quandò tu ea rides, & iure fortaſſis; ſed
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              non ea ratione, quæ ſit mihi facta perſpicua. </s>
              <s id="s.001956">Dicis,
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              ſi vincula inſenſilia ſunt, non eſſe cur timeam Magnetem ſentiri
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              à Ferro.
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              <s id="s.001957"> At tu ludere, opinor, non vis ab æquiuoco:
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              quaſi ego heic aliud appellem inſenſibile, quàm quod
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              præ ſui exilitate eiuſmodi eſt, vt nec videri oculis, nec
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              palpari manibus poſſit? </s>
              <s id="s.001958">Hoc certè modo ipſas quo­
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              que, quas vocant ſpecies intentionaleis, inſenſibileis
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              dicimus; quatenus adeò ſubtiles ſunt, vt videri ipſæ ab
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              oculo nequeant. </s>
              <s id="s.001959">Vnde & ſicut iſtæ ſpecies, licet alio­
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              quin inſenſiles, oculum tamen donec eſt animatus, ita
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              afficiunt, vt per ipſas oculus videat, ſentiat, percipiat
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              ipſa obiecta: ſic reſpondere poſſet Thales, ſi Ferrum
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              quidem animatum ſit, quantumvis ea vincula ſint ipſi
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              ferro inſenſibilia, ita tamen Ferrum ab iis affici, vt per
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              ipſa ſentiat, percipiatque Magnetem. </s>
              <s id="s.001960">Verba tua de­
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              inde ſunt;
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              Quo enim ſenſu catenas illas tuas percepisti, qui­
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              bus, ne ſurſum auoles, Terræ alligatum te cenſes?
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              Nempe
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              me voce quaſi cenſoria cenſuiſti eſſe admonendum, vt
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              in memet deſcenderem. </s>
              <s id="s.001961">Accipio, & hoc ſolùm dico,
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              non magis ſentire me catenas, quibus trahor tamen;
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              quàm oculus ſpecies memoratas, dum videt tamen.
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              <s id="s.001962">Rogas conſequenter,
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              Cur verear negraue deorſum, &
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              Ferrum ad Magnetem, cæteraque corpora ad electrica, ſine
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              ſenſu concurrere non poßint?
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              Sed quamobrem verear, ex­
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              poſitum habes. </s>
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              <s id="s.001963">XIX. Pergis,
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              Ad hos certè effectus abundè ſufficit re­
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              bus omnibus à ſapientißimo earum opifice indita naturalis
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              inclinatio ad conſeruationem, perfectionemque propriam; ad­
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              de, ſi veles, ad conſeruandum vniuerſi ordinem, vt opus non
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