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

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              ſequenter vnamquàmque illarum eſſe ſeptingenties maiorem,
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              quàm Lunam; quamlibet iſtarum pluſquàm quater millies:
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              Concludetur igitur
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              non fore adeò profundam,
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              & latam, vt poſſit meritò cum cæli altitudine compa­
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              rari: cùm ſacræ tamen Literæ iſta interualla quaſi ex
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              æquo habeant,
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              ſi aſcendero in cælum, tu illeic es: ſi deſcen­
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              dero in infernum ades: ſi ſumpſero pennas meas, &c.
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                <expan abbr="Suſ-pectã">Suſ­
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                pectam</expan>
              fore Geneſin, quæ docet fuiſſe ſolum creata duo
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              magna Luminaria, & Lunam eſſe alterum duorum,
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              quòd ipſo quidem Sole ſit minus; at non tot Stellis, ac
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              præſertim
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              multis illis vicibus. </s>
              <s id="s.002102">Procliue proinde fore
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              credere, eſſe igitur Stellarum orbeis Terra, ac Luna lon­
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              gè præſtantiores; neque eſſe adeò ſepoſitos, vt vaſtita­
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              tes inutiles ſint, ſed debere maiore ratione, & à præ­
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              ſtantioribus inhabitari incolis; ac proinde, cùm tota
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              eorum lux ne tantum quidem inſeruiat ad illuminan­
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              dum Terram, & dimetiendum tempora, quantum in­
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              ſeruit vna lux Lunæ: eſſe ergo illos à Deo in alium
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              vſum conditos, &c. </s>
              <s id="s.002103">Denique ponatur quicquid vo­
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              les aliud; & pari ratione opponetur poſſe his ſimilia
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              concludi; procliue eſſe ea credere; ſacrarum Literarum
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              fidem, totiuſque Religionis fundamenta nutare. </s>
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              <s id="s.002104">XXX. </s>
              <s id="s.002105">Quòd ſi, cum iſta nobis videantur deduci
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              poſſe ab aliquibus, non ideò minùs placita, quæ ſunt
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              memorata de rotunditate Terræ; de comparatione
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              Lunæ cum Terra; de Terræ, Lunæque exilitate, & am­
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              plitudine Stellarum, à viris, qui reuerâ pij, & Chriſtiani
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              ſint, defendantur; quatenus illæ conſequutiones, vbi
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              præſertim longiùs, & aduerſus Fidem procedunt, im­
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              probabiles ſunt, nulláque poſſunt aut ratione, aut ob-</s>
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