Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ſed miſtis, quæ (vt dixi) non ſunt verè miſta:
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              nam ſic viuerent, ſed per craſim, aut aliter
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              facta. </s>
              <s id="s.015023">Secundum difficilius eſt, quomodo ca­
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              dauer à planta, & os in cadauere à carne
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              differat? </s>
              <s id="s.015024">De metallis nugatur, nam viuunt vt
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              dixi. </s>
              <s id="s.015025">Quomodo ergo tot fatuitates ſtruit de
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              plumbo & auro, cum ſint ſicut cuniculus &
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              equus? </s>
              <s id="s.015026">Sic de magnete: at de cadauere dico,
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              quòd talia fuerunt verè miſta: & licet amit­
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              tant animam, remanent tamen miſta, non
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              tamen animata: & ideò patet, quòd ſunt
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              quatuor genera miſtorum, & ſunt omnia
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              terrea, vel aquea: quia ſunt grauia: operatio
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              enim facit cognoſcere formam. </s>
              <s id="s.015027">Quòd autem
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              aliqua ſint calida, aliqua frigida, falſum eſt:
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              omnia enim ſunt per ſe frigida, niſi ab igne,
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              vt calx: potentia tamen, vt ſubiiciuntur
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              actioni caloris naturalis, dicuntur humida,
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              vel calida, vel amara, vel detergentia. </s>
              <s id="s.015028">Stul­
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              tum eſt autem credere, quod ſint talia actu:
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              ſed vt limus igni expoſitus. </s>
              <s id="s.015029">At dicit, vide­
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              mus tamen quòd forma ligni eſt, alia à for­
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              ma calcis: dico quòd non niſi paſſiuè, nul­
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              lam enim retinent qualitatem actiuam, niſi
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              elementi, quod declaratur. </s>
              <s id="s.015030">At mirum eſt
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              tot eſſe gradus? </s>
              <s id="s.015031">at magis mirum eſt in cœlo,
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              quòd apud Peripateticos eſt, qualitatis ex­
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              pers eſſe longè plures. </s>
              <s id="s.015032">In quintadecima for­
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              ma generatur verè, quia materia præfuit, ſi
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              æterna fuit? </s>
              <s id="s.015033">dicimus tamen compoſitum ge­
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              nerari ſeptimo primæ Philosophiæ, qui non
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              fit in materia res, ſed ex materia. </s>
              <s id="s.015034">Sicut ſphæ­
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              ra fit ex ære, & non in ære. </s>
              <s id="s.015035">Et etiam quia
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              forma ſi generaretur ex forma, non miſta
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              materiæ dicetur forma generari, ergo ſi ex
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              compoſito fiat compoſitum, generari dice­
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              tur? </s>
              <s id="s.015036">Sed tamen hæ ſubtilitates, vt pleræque
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              aliæ, quæ in verbis conſtant, parum ad re­
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              rum notitiam momenti afferunt. </s>
              <s id="s.015037">Scimus
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              enim (vt dictum eſt) quod ſola forma verè
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              nouiter generatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015038">Ita Philoſophus magnas
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              errandi cauſas dedit. </s>
              <s id="s.015039">At in augumento alia
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              etiam cauſa eſt, forma enim quæ præerat,
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              partem aliam materiæ occupat, ideò exten­
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              ditur, & augetur. </s>
              <s id="s.015040">Materiam autem augeri
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              eſt omninò impoſſibile, cùm non ipſa augea­
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              tur, ſed alia ipſi ſuperaddatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015041">At dicit, fun­
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              ditur, non augetur? </s>
              <s id="s.015042">lis eſt in verbo, ſatis con­
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              ſtat materiam non augeri, aut ergo nihil
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              augetur, aut forma? </s>
              <s id="s.015043">In decimaoctaua ſectio­
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              ne negat omne quòd generatur, ab anima
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              generari, quia ex aqua fit aër: negamus cla­
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              rè ex aqua per ignem generari aërem, ſed
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              vaporem. </s>
              <s id="s.015044">Ex vapore fit aër, à calore Solis,
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              qui ſpecies etiam firmioris vitæ generat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015045">Ignis enim nihil prorſus generat: quod
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              enim generatur, aliquo modo ſimile eſt ge­
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              neranti: at nihil ſimile eſt igni præter ignem,
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              at hic eſt qualitas ſubſtantiam corrumpens,
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              non naturale ens. </s>
              <s id="s.015046">Quòd verò dixerim mi­
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              ſtionem omnem fieri ab anima, quis dubi­
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              tat rectè dictum? </s>
              <s id="s.015047">cum ita miſcere, vt forma
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              nulla elementi maneat, ita augeri vt nihil
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              ſit, quòd non augeatur, manifeſtum ſit eſſe
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              opus Diuinum non ſolùm animæ. </s>
              <s id="s.015048">Et lapides
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              ſuam habent animam, ſuum calorem, at non
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              ſentitur. </s>
              <s id="s.015049">Quid ergo, etiam viperæ calore na­
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              turali carebunt? </s>
              <s id="s.015050">quia tactu frigidæ viden­
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              tur, & plantæ, & piſces. </s>
              <s id="s.015051">In vniuerſum hic
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              nactus extremitate occaſionem, vbique ad­
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              miratur, ſed quid faceret, ſi noſtram artem
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              medendi paruam videret, velut illud: Et
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              fluxus qui eſt morbus inanitatis, cuius cau­
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              ſa eſt repletio: diceret, cur non diſtinguis, de
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              quo fluxu dicas, cùm ſint plura genera: de­
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              inde fluxus non id ſignificat quod exiſti­
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              mas, ſcilicet morbum, nec ſi eſt Latina di­
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              ctio. </s>
              <s id="s.015052">Deinde non omnis fluxus eſt ex reple­
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              tione, ſed quandoque ex imbecillitate, quan­
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              doque ex prauitate humorum. </s>
              <s id="s.015053">Præterea quo­
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              modo poteſt eſſe morbus, cùm ſit actio ſola?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015054">& etiamſi ſit inanitas, non eſt ex repletio­
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              ne? </s>
              <s id="s.015055">ſi ex inanitate, erit potiùs ſymptoma
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              quàm morbus? </s>
              <s id="s.015056">vides quanta occurrant vo­
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              lenti vellicare, ſed tamen & Latina eſt ora­
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              tio, & nihil habet incongrui, aut falſi. </s>
              <s id="s.015057">Cur
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              ergo non carpit Ariſtotelem? </s>
              <s id="s.015058">qui & ipſe cùm
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              breuis ſit, multò plures præfert contradictio­
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              nes, At ille iam receptus eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.015059">at tu interpre­
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              tare nos ex noſtris, quoniam non vt tibi pla­
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              ceremus, rem voluimus facere infinitam: &
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              res ac experimenta ſpecta, videbíſque no­
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              ſtra eſſe etiam multò veriora, quia magis
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              ſpecialia: ille enim ſolùm in generalibus
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              præceptis verſatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015060">Itaque vt noſtra intel­
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              ligerentur, vel ingenio acutiore, vel ocio
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              longiore, vel maiore veritatis amore opus
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              erat. </s>
              <s id="s.015061">Ibidem nos arguit inſcitiæ de Agalo­
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              cho, riſum mouet his ſuis ineptiis, qui non
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              quanta de illo ſcripſerim, antequam librum
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              ſuum ederet, vidit. </s>
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              <s id="s.015062">102 Variari contendis formam, vt &
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              arbores fateor: nihilominus vtcunque ar­
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              borem compreſſeris, ramos à trunco, & ra­
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              dice diſtinctos videbis. </s>
              <s id="s.015063">De auro ſtultè putat
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              ibi naſci: ſolùm id rarum non admittit, id
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              nos aliàs ante ipſum inter audita recenſui­
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              mus, & tamen adiicit ſi ſcirem. </s>
              <s id="s.015064">Dubio ſine
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              aduectum, aliàs multis antea ſæculis, indicio
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              eſt paucitas, & forma nimis exquiſita, tum
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              puritas. </s>
              <s id="s.015065">At hæc ſi vera ſunt (nam alibi cer­
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              tum eſt inueniri) multi enim multa nugan­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.015066">In ſecunda ſectione, ignorat etiam orien­
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              talibus venas ineſſe, quibus redduntur vi­
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              ridiores: formoſis enim etiam næui pulchri­
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              tudinem addunt. </s>
              <s id="s.015067">Quòd de lapidibus veſicæ
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              adducit, contra ipſum eſt: quia enim non
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              viuunt, cruſtati ſunt, ideò non cruſtati ſunt
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              qui viuunt: ſunt enim quidam, licet pauci
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              natura tales: nam nec margaritæ viuunt. </s>
              <s id="s.015068">In
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              quarta ſectione prodit imbecillitatem ſuo­
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              rum principiorum, nam quæ à frigore con­
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              creſcunt, calore molleſcunt, non contrà: nam
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              nec lateres. </s>
              <s id="s.015069">In quinta, ſæpius homo ſine cul­
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              pa occiditur, id eſt, plures homines occidun­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.015070">Velut Terentianum illud, Sæpe ex hu­
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              iuſmodi re, id eſt, ex huiuſmodi rebus, figu­
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              ra eſt, poſtquam repueraſcere oportet apud
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              illum. </s>
              <s id="s.015071">Non omnis operatio eſt ab anima, lo­
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              quendo de nutrice: nam mundi forſan: ne­
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              que enim deſcenſus vſtio, ſed propria. </s>
              <s id="s.015072">Ignis
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              enim ita vrit
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              , ſicut & lignum,
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              eſt vi naturę ſuę. </s>
              <s id="s.015073">At hoc non didicit ab Hip­
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              pocrate vt
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              Galenus in libris de
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              teſtatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015074">Ideò
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              hoc illud torquet,
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              cui
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                <expan abbr="perperã">perperam</expan>
              nititur, cùm
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              reſponſio ſua non conſentiat. </s>
              <s id="s.015075">Nec decepit
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              me ſimilitudo verbi, nam res ex rebus non ab </s>
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