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

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              depellere? </s>
              <s id="s.002150">Et verò ſi fortè vixiſſes ante illud tempus,
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              quo Mathematici demonſtrârunt, aut ſaltem dixerunt
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              eſſe Solem circiter centies ſeptuagies Terra maio­
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              rem: quam igitur illud cenſuiſſes ab omni ratione
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              abhorrens? </s>
              <s id="s.002151">Et cùm iam vides vulgò admitti id, quod
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              memoratum iam eſt, eſſe Stellas fixas, quæ ſint centies
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              octies maiores, quàm Terra, & quater millies, quàm
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              ipſa Luna: cur non id abhorrens à ratione putas? </s>
              <s id="s.002152">An
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              meliùs capis, ob quam rationem Deus illas fecerit tan­
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              tas? </s>
              <s id="s.002153">An-non, ſi id, quod dicimus, tuo ſenſu abſurdum
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              eſt: ſecundum magis, & minus ſolùm erit diſcrimen
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              abſurditatis? </s>
              <s id="s.002154">Habes-ne verò interim vllum omninò
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              argumentum, quo Stellas eſſe tantas ſic probes, vt ſi­
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              mùl probes aut non eſſe, aut non poſſe eſſe maiores?
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              <s id="s.002155">Non certè; ſed penitùs gratis in ea conſiſtis magnitu­
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              dine; neque eſt tibi maior ratio quærendi ex nobis,
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              cur procedamus vlteriùs: quàm nobis quærendi ex te,
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              quamobrem conſiſtas citeriùs. </s>
              <s id="s.002156">Dicere ad ſummum
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              potes, tibi ſic videri; & quia ſic videtur, nos à ratione
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              abhorrere: quid-ni & nobis pari iure dicere dete idem
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              liceat? </s>
              <s id="s.002157">Quanquam & nobis ratio eſt, tum admiranda
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              concinnitas, quæ hac ſuppoſita amplitudine obſerua­
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              tur; tum commendatio operum Dei, quæ tu, quantum
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              potes, extenuas, dum ea non maiora tuo captu facis.
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              <s id="s.002158">Quippe huiuſmodi amplitudo diuinæ potentiæ, ſa­
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              pientiæ, & magniſicentiæ conſentanea eſt: neque eſt,
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              cur tu abſque vlla aut obſeruatione, aut ratione illam
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              contrahas, vel abſurdam putes. </s>
              <s id="s.002159">Quæſo te, inquam, Vir
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              Religioſiſſime, ecquid-nam illis dicturus ſim, cùm
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              hæc, & ſimilia reponent? </s>
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