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

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              triginta ſex; atque adeò diſco penè ſeſqui-altero ad
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              Solem: quemadmodum, ſi aliunde fuerit vera diame­
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              ter minutorum duorum, apparitura erit diſco ad ſola­
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              rem pluſquàm triplo: ſi trium, penè tredecuplo. </s>
              <s id="s.002206">At
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              quorsùm Stella, ſi vel tanta appareret, quantus eſt Sol,
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              non tantum, quantum Sol luceret? </s>
              <s id="s.002207">Reſpondeo; quia
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              illa lucis amplificatio reſpectu oculi ſolùm ficret, &
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              non reſpectu veri diſci, rerumve ab eo illuminatarum:
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              eo modo, quo flamma candelæ, dum ſeipſa maior per
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              noctem videtur, non proptereà tamen aut ſe maior eſt,
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              aut magis illuſtrat. </s>
              <s id="s.002208">Ex quo fit proinde, vt quemadmo­
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              dum flamma candelæ quantò apparet maior, tantò
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              etiam adſpectus eius confuſior, & obſcurior euadit, ne­
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              que eminùs tantum illuminat, quantum ſi apparens
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              eius amplitudo tam ſplendida foret, quàm flammula
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              cominùs viſa: ita ſtellaris ille diſcus quantò appare­
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              ret maior, tantò foret etiam confuſior, obſcuriorque
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              appariturus; atque idcircò Terræ faciem non perinde
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              illuſtraturus, ac ſi eminùs eo fulgore, quo & cominùs
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              appareret: ac proinde tantam dumtaxat in Terram
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              lucem effunderet, quantam iam effun dunt Stellæ ſepa­
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              ratæ. </s>
              <s id="s.002209">Cæterùm huic diſci amplificationi fidem facit
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              vel ipſa Venus, quæ viſa interdiù non maior, quàm
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              Stella quædam per-exigua, apparet tamen deinde in­
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              tra tenebras diametri quintuplò, ac idcircò diſci vige­
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              cuplò quintuplò maioris. </s>
              <s id="s.002210">Sed & fidem facit vberem
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              Mercurius, qui viſus eſſe circa maximas elongationes
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              minutorum trium, deprehenſus tamen eſt à me, cùm
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              eſſet proximè perigeius, ac in ipſo diſco Solari (vbi
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              imponere ſua luce non potuit, ſpectata nempe eius </s>
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