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

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              aduerſus alios non valituræ. </s>
              <s id="s.002132">At ex quo Summum
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              Eccleſiæ caput decretum, vt ais, interpoſuit, non vi­
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              deo quid-nam reſpondere Copernicani Catholici
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              poſſint; niſi fortè ſibi de eo non conſtare, quovſque
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              promulgatum fuerit, legitiméque iuſſum haberi tan­
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              quam fidei articulum intemeratum. </s>
              <s id="s.002133">Quod me atti­
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              net, me vel ſola fama, habitáque fides tuis literis ita
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              mouet, vt non exſpectem promulgationem, ſed ſtatim
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              prorſus exoſculer, & planè cæcâ, vt dicitur, obedien­
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              tiâ ipſum excipiam. </s>
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              Sit ne abſurdum reputare
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              O
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              rbem magnum (ſeu cælum
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              S
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              olis)
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              eſſe quaſi punctum comparatum ad Firmamentum: Et,
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              olem quaſi vnam Fixarum, Fixas quaſi
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              oleis
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              totidem habere.
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              <s id="s.002135">XXXII. </s>
              <s id="s.002136">Miraris deinde,
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              Qua fronte erroris huius
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              ectatores exprobrent communi, ſaniorique ſententiæ, quòd
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              abſurda quædam videatur inducere: cùm ipſi infinita pro­
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              pemodum abſurditatum portenta admittant; excolant
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              culicem, & elephantos deglutientes: ac notas me eorum tan­
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              gere nonnulla, ſed diſplicere, quòd etiam excuſem.
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              <s id="s.002137"> Ego
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              verò ea non excuſo; aut certè ea mihi mens eſt, vt
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              non tam excuſem, quàm proponam quod illi reſ­
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              pondent; vt quæ nosipſis obiicimus eſſe abſurda, non
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              eſſe perſuadeant. </s>
              <s id="s.002138">Dicis,
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              me ſaltem agnoſcere motum
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              Terræ circa
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              olem ſuſtineri non poſſe, niſi etiam admitta­
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              tur magnum illum
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              O
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              rbem, per quem Tellus deferri fingitur,
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              instar puncti respectu cæli obtinere.
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              <s id="s.002139"> Et agnoſco ſanè.
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              At dißimulo,
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              ais,
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              aut certè eleuo quæ inde ſequuntur
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