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

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              ſeruatione oſtendi; & mera nixæ coniectura, qua facili­
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              tate conſtituuntur, corruunt; fumuſque cùm ſint, in
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              tas conſtitutæ, à viris, qui reuerâ pij, & Chriſtiani ſint,
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              defendatur. </s>
              <s id="s.002106">Nimirùm contendent, cùm Terra id
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              num, ac aliunde circum ſe Lunam proximè circumdu­
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              competere, quos propterillam Deus creârit. </s>
              <s id="s.002107">Neminem
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              proinde ſanæ mentis colligere poſſe eſſe aut in Luna,
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              aut in aliis Planetis, Stelliſque fixis incolas, qui autho­
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              mines ſint, aut ſimilitudinem cum hominibus habeant.
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              <s id="s.002108">quoniam, ſi non omnis tellus omnia fert; & Europa,
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              Americáque, Scythia, & Libya, quæ eiuſdem globi
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              partes ſunt, diuerſiſſima proferunt; quantò æquius ſit
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              reputare, non poſſe eadem naſci, educari, degere in
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              Luna, atque cæteris, qui ſunt orbes planè diuerſi? </s>
              <s id="s.002109">Si
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              quædam proinde oriantur, & intereant aut in Planetis
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              cæteris, aut in aliis Siderum globis, non poſſe illa eſſe
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              præſtantiora homine; quatenùs nihil eſſe poteſt aut
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              ratione præclarius, aut ſupernaturalibus donis, quibus
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              ille ſolus donatur, diuinius. </s>
              <s id="s.002110">Cæterùm enim poſſe eſſe
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              corpora maiora, robuſtiora, durabiliora, aut aliis qui­
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              buſdam adiunctis perfectiora, quàm homines, id ne
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              negari quidem poſſe; cùm etiam in ipſamet Terra mul­
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              ta corpora id genus naſcantur. </s>
              <s id="s.002111">Et non proptereà Ge­
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              neſin in ſuſpicionem poſſe vocari; quoniam ea docet, </s>
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