Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              nenſium, è mari procedere: & tamen hu­
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              milius eſſe mare Liguſticum fateor. </s>
              <s id="s.014818">Hinc
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              colligere potes, hos falſos peripateticos ni­
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              hil ſcire, ſed nugari, quandoquidem ipſe nec
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              vllus alius potuit modum inuenire, quo
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              aquæ à fontibus, & in cacumine montium
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              ſcaturiant, & quomodo dulceſcant, aliæ au­
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              tem ſalſæ è puteis hauriantur, & ex monti­
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              bus nulla ſcaturiat ſalſa. </s>
              <s id="s.014819">Et ita nugantur im­
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              pudentiſſimè. </s>
              <s id="s.014820">Sed audi modum, qui vnus
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              eſt, & ſimpliciſſimus, & vide quomodo in
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              dictis noſtris, quæ ille putat adeò inuicem
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              contraria eſſe, nihil penitus ſit diſcors, &
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              quomodo ſub noſtra breuitate plura lateant
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              pulcherrima, & qualia ſint, certè nunquam
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              à ſæculis inuenta, ne cogar, vt tu propria lau­
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              dare. </s>
              <s id="s.014821">Is modus eſt, cum quo omnia experi­
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              menta, omnia noſtra verba concordant. </s>
              <s id="s.014822">Lon­
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              giuſculis fui, vt breuitatem, & orationis va­
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              rietatem, quam tu inconſtantiam appellas,
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              agnoſcas: & quanta vbique non ſolùm hoc
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              in volumine, ſed in vniuerſis noſtris libris
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              comprehendatur. </s>
              <s id="s.014823">Et quia ob importunita­
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              tem plura dixi, quàm deceret, breuiſſimè,
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              ſed tamen lucidè rem ipſam docebo. </s>
              <s id="s.014824">Aqua
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              maris velut in ſpongia ſub terra vbique ex­
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              ſudat, quibuſdam etiam in locis lata via pro­
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              cedit: atque tunc ſalſa hauritur è puteis, vt
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              ad Salam in agro Placentino, cùm tamen
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              pluſquam 10000. paſſuum à mari quoquo­
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              verſum diſtet, & tunc nunquam ſpontè aſ­
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              cendit, vnde nullus fons ſalſus ex infinitis
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              fermè: ſi ſit, neceſſe eſt in decliuiore à mari
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              loco eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014825">Reliqua tota aqua, quæ exugitur,
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              neceſſariò percolatur, atque ideò dulceſcit.
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              <s id="s.014826">Trahitur ergo ad ſuperficiem à calore ſolis,
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              & pluuia, atque ibi coactis ob frigiditatem
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              in acumine montis vaporibus fiunt riui, qui
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              fluunt ad humiliorem locum, ex quorum
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              multitudine fluuij. </s>
              <s id="s.014827">Aſcenſus ergo perpetuus
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              eſt, quoniam non ſolùm calore ſyderum, ſed
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              terra in imò exhalant vapores, velut in di­
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              ſtillatorio vaſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014828">Materia igitur deeſſe non
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              poteſt, vt quæ à mari ſuppeditetur, exhala­
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              tionis cauſa etiam ſemper adeſt calor cœ­
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              leſtis, & viſcerum terræ frigiditas, lapidum,
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              & aëris in cacumine montium: ergo ſca­
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              turitio perpetua, id eſt valdè diuturna, quia
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              ſub ſole (vt dici ſolet) perpetuum nihil: ſed
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              verè nihil in elementari regione. </s>
              <s id="s.014829">Cùm verò
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              vapores paulò altius attolluntur ſupra cacu­
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              mina montium, fiunt nebulæ, inde pluuia.
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              <s id="s.014830">Hoc autem duplici modo, vel ob vaporis
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              abundantiam, & tunc etiam creſcunt flumi­
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              na: vel ob caloris vehementiam, & tunc
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              tantò plus decreſcunt flumina, quantò plu­
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              uiæ augentur. </s>
              <s id="s.014831">Ideò cum ſiccantur fluuij, ma­
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              gnos imbres expectare oportet, quod & ra­
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              tione efficientis cauſæ, & materiæ conuenit,
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              & finis. </s>
              <s id="s.014832">Ita ſapientiſſimè Deus hæc diſpo­
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              ſuit. </s>
              <s id="s.014833">Videas ergo in montium viſceribus
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              perpetuum quaſi fumum vndique: quo cùm
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              tenuior pars ſolùm aſcendat, tum quia ex
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              percolata iam aqua dulciſſimi fontes pro­
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              deunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014834">Et ſi omninò ſalſi ob maris propin­
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              quitatem aſcendat, vt iuxta maris littus, ac
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              in fontibus inſularum, & promontoriorum
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              admiſta puriore aqua ac dulci ſalſus ſapor
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              obtunditur, velut & in pluuia aqua ob ean­
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              dem cauſam licet non deſit, latet. </s>
              <s id="s.014835">In terra
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              verò non tam facilè oriuntur fontes, ni vel
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              deriuentur, vel lapides propè ſint, quoniam
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              vapor non adeò cogitur. </s>
              <s id="s.014836">Ita rectè ergo di­
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              ximus, ſupra fontes partem oriri, ob maris
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              aquam, partim ob tranſmutationem. </s>
              <s id="s.014837">Nec
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              partim intelligendum eſt ad aquam referen­
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              do, cùm ſit vniuſmodi generatio eius, ſed ad
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              cauſas generationis aquæ. </s>
              <s id="s.014838">In verticibus er­
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              go altiſſimorum montium (non compreſſa
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              redundat, vt ipſe adeò ineptè putat, nam nec
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              perpetua, nec diuturna eſſe poſſet) & in par­
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              uis inſulis, aqua dulciſſima ac limpidiſſima,
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              perenníſque ſcaturire ſolet. </s>
              <s id="s.014839">En vides quo­
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              modo veris principiis omnia experimenta,
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              omnia noſtra dicta conſentiant? </s>
              <s id="s.014840">nihil fal­
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              ſum, nihil pugnans, nihil abſurſum eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014841">Ipſe
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              aquam perpetuò, & terram collocat extra
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              locum ſuum, vim infert naturæ, opificem
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              imprudentiæ arguit: & cùm omnia hæc illi
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              conceſſerimus, etiam ortus fontium nullam
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              veram cauſam afferri poteſt, nec motus aqua­
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              rum, ſed experimento manifeſtè contradi­
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              centem. </s>
              <s id="s.014842">Nunc vſque inauditam doctrinam
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              declarauimus. </s>
              <s id="s.014843">Poſt vt hoc, quod ſenſu pa­
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              tent, viderint, inuenient Ariſtotelem centum
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              in locis dixiſſe, tractúmque per capillos non
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              per veſtes ſolùm, cogent, vt dixerit, quæ nec
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              ſomniauit. </s>
              <s id="s.014844">Tribuere conantur omnia anti­
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              quitati, cùm tamen ex illo pauca ſcire poſſi­
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              mus, partim quòd noui Græci erant, nec­
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              dum artes, & diſciplinæ inuentæ, ipſe Phi­
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              loſophus tumultuosè hinc, & inde colligens
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              in vnum congeſſit, non potens afferre iudi­
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              cium, nec ad ulteriora penetrare, ſtimulis
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              etiam contradicendi, tum præſentibus occu­
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              pationibus ob ambitionem impediebatur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014845">Et optima quæque ex illo in cauerna periê­
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              re: quæ ad nos peruenêre mutilata, corru­
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              pta, vix intellecta, ob breuitatem, & pondus
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              ſententiarum, argutúmque contextum, ac
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              quod maius omnibus eſt, ob energiæ, &
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              conſuetudinis loquendi modum amiſſum,
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              vt etiam Auerroës docebat in ſecundo Me­
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              teororum. </s>
              <s id="s.014846">Et tamen vel ſic Ariſtotelem ip­
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              ſum non negauerim rebus naturalibus ma­
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              ximum lumen attuliſſe, ob ingenij peritiæ
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              ac iudicij præſtantiam, omnéſque qui ad
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              hanc vſque ætatem floruerunt, vtilitate do­
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              ctrinæ longè antecelluiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014847">Vt verò ad ho­
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              mines, qui ante nos fuerunt, collatus maxi­
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              mus fuit: ita ad eorum, quæ in natura ſunt
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              arcanorum doctrinam, naturalémque diſci­
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              plinam minùs, & omninò quaſi nullus ha­
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              bendus eſt, cui æſtimationi, qui non credit,
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              prorſus ſtultus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014848">Et qui non perpetuò ante
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              oculos habet, in infinitos ac turpiſſimos er­
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              rores decidit. </s>
              <s id="s.014849">Ego verò cum Galeno didici,
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              non Ariſtotelis ob læſas ſententias, ſed ip­
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              ſam naturam omnium parentem præ oculis
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              mihi ſtatuere. </s>
              <s id="s.014850">Cui ſi Ariſtoteles, vel alius
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              quiſque rectè adblandiatur, nemo me ipſo
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              libentiùs adhæret, nemo gratior eſt in reci­
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              tando nomine illius per quem profecerim.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014851">Sin aberrare cernam, omitto, non accuſo:
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              quod etiam facturus fuiſſem in Ariſtotele,
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              ni claritas nominis eius illum prætereundo
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              me imperitiæ reum feciſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014852">Itaque rogo, be­
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              nigne lector, ex vno, in quo maximè videbar </s>
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