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

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              minuenda ſit pro ratione diſtantiæ, diuide Fixarum
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              diſtantiam per diſtantiam Solis à Terra, fiet quotiens
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              amplius, quàm duodecim. </s>
              <s id="s.002169">Et quia Solis diameter ap­
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              paret iam nobis dimidij gradus, ſiue minutorum tri­
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              ginta; ſequitur vt Sole inter Fixas exſiſtente, eius dia­
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              meter apparitura non ſit, niſi pars huius duodecima,
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              ſiue minutorum duorum cùm ſemiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.002170">Porrò hac ea­
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              dem diametro apparent vulgò quæ Stellæ ſunt magni­
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              tudinis primæ, aut ſecundæ. </s>
              <s id="s.002171">Igitur ſi Sol fuerit inter
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              Fixas conſtitutus, non apparebit maior, quàm vna Stel­
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              larum. </s>
              <s id="s.002172">Et vice verſa, ſi quęlibet earumdem Stellarum
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              fixarum conſtituta fuerit vbi iam eſt Sol, ſeu pari, qua
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              ille à nobis diſtantia: apparebit nobis tanta, quantus
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              Sol; atque adeò omnes erunt quaſi Soles. </s>
              <s id="s.002173">Quid ſi di­
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              ſtantiam Fixarum augeas pro opinione Albategnij
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              Ptolemæo inhærentis, ſtatuentiſque illam nouemde­
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              cim millium ſemidiametrorum: an-non apparitura
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              fuerit Solis diameter infra duo minuta? </s>
              <s id="s.002174">Quid ſi adhûc
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              ampliùs, vt debere fieri probabile eſt, nihilque repu­
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              gnat? </s>
              <s id="s.002175">Verùm hoc ſufficiat, vt intelligas non nos aut
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              abſurda tueri, aut ijs
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              abſurdiora fingere:
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              ſed te potiùs rem non aduertere, & fingere magis. </s>
              <s id="s.002176">Qua­
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              re & cùm ſit Deusipſe, qui tot in cælo ingenteis Soleis
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              pro ſua voluntate, ac verbo vnico creauit: ne cauſſare
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              nos pro noſtra voluntate, verbóque vno illos creare:
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              ſed agnoſce potiùs te eos pro tua voluntate, verbóque
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              vno deſtruere. </s>
              <s id="s.002177">Si illi, inquam, aduerſum me hac
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              ratione inſtiterint; dic mihi, te quæſo, quid ſim reſ­
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              ponſurus? </s>
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