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

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              <s id="s.001981">
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              eſſe hypotheſeis, quibus explicetur quid ſint, vt ſe ha­
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              beant, quomodo agant, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.001982">ſed, vt antè dixi, ratio­
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              nem non video; quando exinde ſequitur, vt vniuerſam
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              eliminare Philoſophiam oporteat. </s>
              <s id="s.001983">Et vide, vt me con­
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              ſequenter traducas.
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              Si enim eam tibi vim concedis, vt
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              proiectilibus inclinationem (voca motum, voca impetum, aut
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              aliter, vt volueris) imprimere talem poßis, quæ recedentibus à
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              te ijſdem proiectilibus, diutiùs in illis perſeueret; & in quam­
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              cumque partem deſtinaueris, eadem deferat, atque impellat,
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              imò quæ obuio etiam, impedimento non ſtatim tota deſtruatur,
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              ſed aliam in partem proiectilia abducat, vt in reflexione tu
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              ipſe contendis: eriſ-ne tam parum æquus rerum arbiter, vt à
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              ſapientißimo, ac præpotente Vniuerſi Conditore rebus quibuſ­
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              libet inclinationem longè perfectiorem imprimi poſſe addu­
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              bites?
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              Heic nimirùm ſic mecum agis, vt ſi me aliquem
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              haberem; & comparatus præſertim ad Authorem
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              meum; coram quo non modò factus ſum tanquam
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              nihilum, ſed ſum etiam nihilo minus. </s>
              <s id="s.001984">Ac rursùs, vt ſi
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              ego negarem quicquid eſt inclinationis, aut virium in
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              rebus naturæ, id debere Deo Optimo Maximo acce­
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              ptum referri: ac denique, vt ſi quæſtio eſſet, poſſit-ne
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              Deus imprimere inclinationes aliquas rebus, & non
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              potius qualeſ-nam ſint inclinationes à Deo impreſſæ;
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              quemadmodum dictum iam eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001985">Pergis,
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              Finge vim à
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              te impreſſam eſſe eiuſmodi, quæ varijs impedimentis ſiſti qui­
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              dem poßit, ſed non deſtrui, aut etiam minui; an non ſublato
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              impedimento motum redintegraret?
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              Sed cùm damnes ipſe
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              figmenta, quorſum poſtulas, vt illa adaugeam? </s>
              <s id="s.001986">Ne­
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              que enim vim poſſe ſiſti, quin ſimùl deſtruatur, pro­
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              babile puto.
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              Talis,
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              inquis,
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              omninò naturalis rerum in-
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