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

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              abſurda, vt quòd inerrantia
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              idera propemodùm omnia tam
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              prodigioſæ molis admittenda ſint, vt earum ſemidiameter in­
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              dat.
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              <s id="s.002140"> Ego verò id, vt mihi videtur, non diſſimulo; quòd
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              ſi eleuare viſus ſum; id alienæ ſententiæ fuit. </s>
              <s id="s.002141">Quan­
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              quam me dixiſſe non commemini, Sidera inerrantia
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              Orbem magnum excedere; videlicet, potiuſ quàm
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              Solem, quem dixi quidem poſſe
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              apparere,
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              at non
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              eſſe
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              ipſi æqualem. </s>
              <s id="s.002142">Sed eſto, vt dicis; quandò Copernicani
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              ſunt, qui illam magnitudinem tribuere Stellis non
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              erubeſcunt. </s>
              <s id="s.002143">Proſequeris,
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              Quod ſi' tibi abſurdum, atque
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              ab omni ratione abhorrens non videtur, quid, amabò, iudica­
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              bis abſurdum?
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              Id verò tu mihi potes dicere, neque ego
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              abnuo, ſed adſtipulor; At quæſo te tamen, quid ſim
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              reſponſurus, ſi cùm idem obiecero, illi ita exceperint?
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              <s id="s.002144">Tu id abſurdum, & ab omni ratione eſſe abhorrens
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              iudicas: & quam-nam tandem affers rationem? </s>
              <s id="s.002145">An-ne
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              quòd exinde Stellæ inerrantes molis ſint nimis prodi­
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              gioſæ? </s>
              <s id="s.002146">Ecquis verò tu, qui exiſtimes eſſe aliquid nimium
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              in operibus immenſi Authoris? </s>
              <s id="s.002147">Non videtur fuiſſe
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              Deo cauſſa, cur eas tam vaſtas faceret: at fuiſti-ne tu
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              eius conſiliarius, vt penetraſſe putes te in omnia diui­
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              næ Sapientiæ arcana? </s>
              <s id="s.002148">Non capis rationem tantæ va­
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              ſtitatis: an ergo quia tibi mens anguſta eſt; ipſa tanti
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              Opifices opera debent eſſe anguſta? </s>
              <s id="s.002149">Abhorrere à ratio­
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              ne putas, vt aliquæ Stellæ ſint Sole maiores, ac tot præ­
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              ſertim vicibus: an-non es proinde illi ſimilis, qui vr­
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              bem Romam ſimilem tuguriolis paucis putabat; tan­
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              quam non capiens eſſe poſſe tot vicibus maiorem illa,
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              in quam ſolebant paſtores ouium teneros fœtus </s>
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