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

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              alias rationes, cùm illæ iam & conquiſitæ, & adinuen­
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              tæ fuerint; ideò viſus ſum non debere cæteras intactas
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              prætermittere, vt oſtenderem quatenus eas quoque ar­
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              bitrarer eſſe infirmas. </s>
              <s id="s.002069">Exiſtimaui autem, ſi licuit eam
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              ſuffodere, quæ quaſi murus aheneus erat, & quam tu
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              et, ipſum pridem improbaſſe teſtatus es; nihil pro­
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              hibere quò minùs cæteræ ſaltem mediocri ar
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              atione
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              : neque enim illas aut eſſe ſanctior
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              s, vt in­
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              uiolatiores manerent: aut magis extra aleam, vt vel
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              non poſſent, vel non deberent parem experiri
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              .
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              <s id="s.002070">Quod autem ſimùl interrogaui, aut exaggeraui
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              am
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              aliquid in Copernicanorum gratiam; id egi, vt difficul­
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              tates vberiùs innoteſcerent, patefaceremque quibus
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              argumentis, cuique rationum oppoſitarum probabili­
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              tati occurrendum ſit, ſi quis aduerſus Copernicanos
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              præſtare voluerit rationem inuictam. </s>
              <s id="s.002071">Et quæris,
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              Quid ampliùs eram facturus, ſi eam ſententiam animo deſti­
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              nato aſſerendam, propugnandamque aſſumpſiſſem?
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              At nihil
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              ſanè ampliùs facturus fui, qui neid quidem fui aſſum­
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              pturus. </s>
              <s id="s.002072">Alios, qui aſſumunt, vberiore quadam, atque
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              concinniore methodo vides agere: ego quidvis com­
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              memoraui breuiter, ac præpoſterè; quippe vt ſe fors
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              obtulit, mentique, & manui properanti obiecit. </s>
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              <s id="s.002073">XXVIII. Sequitur,
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              Tolerandum fortaßis, & certè non
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              ita inconueniens viſum iri, ſi cum Heraclide Pontico, &
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              Ecphanto Pythagoreo Terram in medio Vniuerſi constitutam
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              quotidiano tantum motu circa proprium axem moueri conten­
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              derem; ſic enim concitatißimum illum Siderum motum, qui
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              plæriſque
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              C
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              opernici ſectatoribus diſplicuiſſe viſus eſt maximè,
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              tollerem; ac ſatis moderatum, quo Sacris literis faciliùs ſatis-
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