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

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              <s id="s.001986">
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              clinatio eſt; nec babes vnde impoßibilem, aut ipſis etiam gra­
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              uibus reipsâ inditam non eſſe concludas.
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              <s id="s.001987"> Sed quamobrem
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              talem non habeam, ac eam præſertim, quæ grauibus
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              indita eſt; tum in ipſis Epiſtolis, tum in iis, quæ hacte­
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              nus deduxi, inculcatum ſatis. </s>
              <s id="s.001988">Vnde & cùm ſic rogas,
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              Cur eam ergo agnoſcere detrectas, & ad inania illa tua
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              figmenta recurris?
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              Dictum ſatis, ſuperque eſt, cur, &
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              qualis ſit, quam detrectem; & cur veritatis amore nul­
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              lum non moueam lapidem, vt ſaltem, ſi qua eius vm­
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              bra, aut ſimilitudo occurrat, experiar. </s>
              <s id="s.001989">Et non latet me
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              quidem quàm multis difficultatibus omnia inuoluan­
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              tur: ſed hoc ipſum eſt, ob quod mea inania figmenta
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              non diſſimulo, viſurus an ſint, qui pleniora faciant. </s>
              <s id="s.001990">Sa­
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              nè vbi ex intellecta tuo modo inclinatione declaratum
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              fuerit, non ſolùm quî ſaluari valeant præmiſſa illa in­
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              commoda; ſed etiam, qua ratione fiat, vt res grauis de­
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              cidens, nulla ſuperaddita inclinatione, acceleretur, &
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              grauior, quàm fuerit initio, euadat, inclinatiorque
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              proinde fiat, ac eâ quidem, qua obſeruatur, propor­
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              tione, non alia: & rursùs, vnde-nam contingat, cur
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              Saxum pondo
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              millium non cadat velociùs,
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              quàm lapis duellaris: ſecus ac Ariſtoteles tuo illo
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              principio inductus opinatus fuit, cæteraque ſimilia;
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              tum non detrectabo, ſed exoſculabor, complectar,
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              tuebor, & valere longè iubebo non ſolùm quæ inania
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              ſunt, ſed quæ plena etiam figm enta. </s>
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              <s id="s.001991">XX. </s>
              <s id="s.001992">Rem conſequenter adoriris, &,
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              Si grauia,
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              in­
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              quis,
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              deorsùm à Tellure magneticè traherentur, neceſſa­
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              rium eſſet, vt quo Terræ viciniora eſſent, eò fortiùs ab ea
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              traherentur, vt in Ferro, ac Magnete euidenter contingit.
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