Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ratione procedit. </s>
              <s id="s.014216">Tertium, quod nec à cor­
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              pore, nec in corpore, ſed in animo fit,
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                túrque</expan>
              afflatus. </s>
              <s id="s.014217">In omni mutatione, quod agit
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              corruptioni eſt obnoxium. </s>
              <s id="s.014218">Influxus autem
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              ab immortali corpore, afflatus autem ab im­
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              mortali nec corpore: hiſque hæc tria inter
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              ſe differunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014219">Afflatus etiam docet, influxus
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              impellit. </s>
              <s id="s.014220">An verò cœlorum idem ſit cen­
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              trum, an mundi infiniti, ad libros de Æterni­
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              tatis arcanis rurſus ſpectat. </s>
              <s id="s.014221">In hoc vero vno
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              ipſo Deum eſſe aliquem omninò neceſſe eſt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014222">Nam neque ordo Vniuerſi conſtare poſſet,
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              nullo rectore gubernante, cùm materia caſu
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              ſolùm recta, diuturnam rerum ſeriem tueri
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              non poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.014223">Multò minùs conſtructio tam
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              elegans, tam abſoluta, atque vnicuique fini
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              adeò congrua, non ſolùm opifice prudenti,
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              ſed etiam ſapientiſſimo, qualis Deus eſt,
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              prorſus indigebat. </s>
              <s id="s.014224">Eſt etiam ſtatus in omni
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              cauſarum genere, qui ad alium pertingere
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              non poteſt, quàm ad Deum. </s>
              <s id="s.014225">Atque hæ tres
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              rationes omnino demonſtrant non ſolùm
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              Deum eſſe, ſed ſapientiſſimum etiam, ac cun­
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              cta ſcientém. </s>
              <s id="s.014226">Quod ſuadent etiam multa: vt
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              prodigia futurorum nuncia, quæ non niſi ab
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              eo, qui ventura nouerit, fieri queunt: & men­
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              tis humanæ origo, quæ à meliore quodam
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              opifice proficiſcitur. </s>
              <s id="s.014227">Nihil autem melius
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              mente, quòd non intelligat. </s>
              <s id="s.014228">Et conſcientia
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              facinorum, quę homines torquet. </s>
              <s id="s.014229">quaſi nobis
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              naturaliter inſitus ſit timor, & reuerentia
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              quædam melioris cuiuſdam opificis atque re­
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              gis. </s>
              <s id="s.014230">Ciuitatum etiam ſocietates non adeò
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              eſſent diuturnæ, nec qui eas violant, obnoxij
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              pœnis numinis, abſque numine vllo. </s>
              <s id="s.014231">Homi­
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              nibus etiam omnibus, quamvis de Dei eſſen­
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              tia diſſideant, communi conſenſu opinio,
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              cultúſque Dei hæſit, atque id ab orbis me­
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              moria. </s>
              <s id="s.014232">Diſcrimen quoque honeſti, & turpis,
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              boni, & mali, virtutis ac vitiorum, tum ſeries
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              tanta ac ordo adeò admirabilis numerorum
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              ab aliqua prima mente, ab aliquo primo bo­
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              no, ab aliquo primo ordine ducunt
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              .
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              <s id="s.014233">Hæc igitur tot tantáque ſunt, quæ Deum non
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              eſſe ſolum, ſed qualis, quantúſque ſit, oſten­
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              dunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014234">Quòd ſi is non curat vnumquodque,
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              cùm res non ſint præter ſingularia: ſingula­
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              ribus pereuntibus, peribunt & ſpecies. </s>
              <s id="s.014235">Vel
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              igitur ſuſtinentur ſingularia ordine quodam
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              Vniuerſi, quem Fatum vocamus: aut ſi non
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              ex putredine ſpecies
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              inſtaurari. </s>
              <s id="s.014236">
                <expan abbr="Horũ">Horum</expan>
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              veriſimilius eſt, Deo ſingularia cognoſcente
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              ordino
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              vniuerſi manere cuncta,
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                doquidem</expan>
              ſpecies interire apud Philoſophos,
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              abſurdum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014237">Deus igitur omnia nouit. </s>
              <s id="s.014238">Sed
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              vnde ſortes, an ab illo? </s>
              <s id="s.014239">minimè, ſed ab afflatu
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              quandoque. </s>
              <s id="s.014240">Lex tamen noſtra ſortes à Deo
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              immitti, & gubernari affirmat. </s>
              <s id="s.014241">Vti eis licet
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              ad euitandam calumniam vel offenſionem,
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              cùm inter æquales contentio fuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.014242">Nobiliſ­
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              ſimi generis eſt geomantica mirabili certè
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              ratione conſtructa, de qua libri circumferun­
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              tur nomine Petri Apponenſis, celebres. </s>
              <s id="s.014243">Et
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              quamvis quidem amici noſtri non parùm lu­
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              dendo his profecerint, ſeu fiducia, ſeu proprio
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              ſydere ad diuinandum, ſeu dæmonum præſi­
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              dio adiuti, attamen illarum omnium incon­
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              ſtantiam in quarto de Sapientia libro decla­
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              rauimus. </s>
              <s id="s.014244">Et Diogenes dicere ſolebat, cùm
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              hoc genus hominum aruſpicum, aut ſorte
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              futura prædicentium intueor, parùm abeſſe
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              homines à belluis exiſtimo: cùm medicos aut
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              pictores, parùm diis. </s>
              <s id="s.014245">Hæc igitur de vniuerſa
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              rerum natura dicta ſunt, non vt pleraque per­
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              ſequeremur, aut magnam partem earum, ſed
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              vt omnium quaſi exempla, ſemina, principiá­
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              que doceremus. </s>
              <s id="s.014246">Etenim fi quis, quæ mente
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              aſſequi non valet, quæque arte mira conſtare
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              putat, quàm facilè, & vt ita dicam, nullo ar­
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              tificio à natura fiant, intelligat, non ſolùm
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              deſinet admirari, & plurima vnius exemplo
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              cognoſcet, ſed etiam à naturæ operibus ad
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              artem traducens, & ipſe haud magno labore
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              admiranda aliis fabricabit. </s>
              <s id="s.014247">Sit autem pro in­
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              numeris vnum tale exemplum. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Tempeſtatũ">Tempeſtatum</expan>
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              differentiæ.</s>
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              Lacuum
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              cauſæ quin­
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              que.</s>
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              Atlantis
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              maioris Æ­
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              thiopiæ
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                tis</expan>
              mirum.</s>
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              Orbis ſitus.</s>
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              Æther.</s>
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              Demonſtra­
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              tio oſtendens,
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              quod idem
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              numero
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                quam</expan>
              in æter­
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              num redibit.</s>
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              Acuum quid
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              ſit.</s>
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              In æternis
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              idem eſt eſſe
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              ac poſſe.</s>
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              Zeilam inſu­
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              la, terreſtris
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              quidam pa­
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              radiſus.</s>
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              Influxus
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              quid ſit.</s>
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              Afflatus
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              quid ſit.</s>
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              Sortes in
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              quibus, & à
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              quo.</s>
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              <s id="s.014260">Vides papillionum alas, quàm pulchrè, &
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              ad amuſſim coloribus diſtinctæ ſint? </s>
              <s id="s.014261">tum par­
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              dorum, pantherarum, felium, tótque aliorum
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              animalium pelles, quod & ars etiam noſtris
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              temporibus nimis ſagax cœpit imitari, dum
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              muſtellarum earum, quas à varietate varios
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              appellant, pelles purpureo colore tingunt,
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              non ſolùm iucundo, ſed etiam ſalubri inuen­
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              to. </s>
              <s id="s.014262">Sed ad rem redeo. </s>
              <s id="s.014263">Quid florum tot ſpecies
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              adeò elaboratas, vt ſumma diligentia, nec pi­
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              ctor inſignis ad vnguem eos exprimat? </s>
              <s id="s.014264">Quid
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              igitur, an ab opifice natura intellectus, &
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              ſenſus experte, hæc quæ propriè ad ſenſum
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              atque eundem valdè purum pertinere viden­
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              tur, facta erunt, aut fieri
                <expan abbr="potuerũt">potuerunt</expan>
              , an ſummi
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              opificis cura, tam paruis ac numeroſis rebus
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              deſtinabitur? </s>
              <s id="s.014265">Ille flores cyclaminis, trigemi­
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              nóſque Iouis, goſſipij, iridis, colchici, ericæ,
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              hyoſcyami, tótque aliarum herbarum? </s>
              <s id="s.014266">illene
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              culmos albi ellebori, aut totam denique
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              pæoniam nobis diſtinguet? </s>
              <s id="s.014267">abſit. </s>
              <s id="s.014268">Sed quo­
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              modo ſine arte vlla tantum artificium fiat,
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              intellige. </s>
              <s id="s.014269">Quæcunque fortuna miſta ſunt,
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              quomodocunque coloribus diſtinguantur, ac
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              abſque vlla ratione, ſeu creſcant, ſeu diuidan­
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              tur æqualiter ſeu inflentur, formam colori­
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              bus diſtinctam, exornatámque ad amuſſim ac
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              depictam pulchrè admodum præferunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014270">Di­
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              uiduntur igitur papilionum alæ, & florum fo­
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              lia, creſcúntque, & intumeſcunt velut vitrea
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              vaſa. </s>
              <s id="s.014271">Cùm enim albo maſſa, quaſi obiter di­
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              ſtinguatur inflata, colores illos reddit æqua­
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              libus diſtinctos interuallis. </s>
              <s id="s.014272">Iam vides, ſi quis
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              depictam velit tabellam, teſſellatóque po­
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              tiùs labore variatam efficere, miſtis fortuitò
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              coloribus in maſſam, eáque per tranſuerſum
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              diuiſa æqualibus altitudinibus, fruſta dura­
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              ta tabulæ pulcherrimæ formam referent, &
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              opus æternum reddent, cùm non vt colores
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              eluantur. </s>
              <s id="s.014273">Ergo vides vt in his imago reluceat
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              vniuerſi: vt enim multa ex vno, & ex æquali
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              inæqualia, ex fortuitis artificioſa, ex inordi­
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              natis ordinata: ita ex vno Deo omnium opi­
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              fice ſummo &
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              , facili quadam æqua­
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              litate tam multa prodeunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014274">Videtur autem
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              ex vnitate binarius primùm proficiſci, quod
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              in cœlo obſeruare licet, neque enim tam
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              ſimpliciter vnum eſſe poteſt, quin in eo duos
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              motus primos effingere, imò & contemplari
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              liceat. </s>
              <s id="s.014275">Sed de his aliàs.
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              Cur quædam
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              quarto anno
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              ſingulo me­
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              liora eua­
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              dant, & de
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              aliis circui­
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              tibus.</s>
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              <s id="s.014277">Nec ſolùm quæ abdita ſunt formis, ſed
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              etiam numeris, cauſam habent. </s>
              <s id="s.014278">Velut quod
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              in Moluchiis quartano circuitu annorum
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                ryophylorum</expan>
              vberior prouentus ac felicior ſit.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014279">Thermarum autem aquæ eodem circuitu </s>
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