Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              autoribus decerpo, quas poſtmodum illis, ſi
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              per eos licet accommodem. </s>
              <s id="s.015076">Sic ergo in ani­
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              malibus, plantis, atque lapidibus ac metal­
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              lis. </s>
              <s id="s.015077">In ſeptima ſectione, quæ ſentit anima
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              in ſenſum habentibus (nam de piſce ſermo
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              erat) eadem eſt nutrici: quoniam nullum
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              animal videmus (ſi contendas etiam in illis
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              has differre) quod ſublata ſenſus facultate
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              nutriatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015078">Quid ergo vellicat, quòd ei ad de­
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              bilitandam declarationem non prodeſt? </s>
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              <s id="s.015079">103 Nugatur (vt ſolet) non enim eſt
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              mons, ſed collis erat, vbi lemnia terra effo­
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              diebatur, non enim vllus lapis. </s>
              <s id="s.015080">Vnde dum
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              labefactare conatur, dicta noſtra confir­
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              mat. </s>
              <s id="s.015081">Sic in quarta ſectione tot errores,
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              quot vt penè dixerim verba. </s>
              <s id="s.015082">Sed cui bo­
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              no? </s>
              <s id="s.015083">Quod maximè faſtidit, eius ignorantiam
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              oſtendit. </s>
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              nihil grauius meo iudicio
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              eſt eo in libro, quo fit vt illum corticem ſo­
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              lùm & extimum quidem deguſtaſſe intel­
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              ligam. </s>
              <s id="s.015085">Quòd ſi non admodum longa eſſet
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              interpretatio, & declarationes non paucæ
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              includerentur, ſubnecterem expoſitionem
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              illorum verborum, quæ vir prodigioſus
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              contemnit. </s>
              <s id="s.015086">At non defuturos ſpero, qui
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              nunc vel ſaltem admoniti ea interpretari
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              ſciant. </s>
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              <s id="s.015087">104 In Scotia deſunt arbores ob vim
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              verborum, non qualitatem: extirpantur enim
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              locis patulis, plura de hoc dixi aliàs, præ­
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              ſentia non audita narrans. </s>
              <s id="s.015088">De ſubſtantia, Eu
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              bene ſit theſauro illi, per quem didicimus
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              apud Quintilianum, ſolidiſſimam cuiuſque
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              rei partem ſignificari? </s>
              <s id="s.015089">aliter periclitaremur
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              in pædagogio. </s>
              <s id="s.015090">In ſecunda ſectione, ſepia no­
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              ſtra, vt fallat fallitur, ruditatémque ſuam
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              prodit, terra illa non pura eſt: cùm ſpolian­
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              tur à cortice vetuſtate in fodinis, aut extra
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              illo carent. </s>
              <s id="s.015091">Si quis videat decorticatas arbo­
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              res, cùm pleraſque videat cum cortice, an ar­
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              bores cortice carere pronuntiabit? </s>
              <s id="s.015092">At hic
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              vir declarationibus prætermiſſis ſemper con­
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              tradicit: ad eas nihil: at quomodo hic egre­
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              gius Philoſophus naturam oblitam ſui mu­
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              neris facit? </s>
              <s id="s.015093">quàm in omnibus operari per
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                ſtrumenta</expan>
              poterat animaduertere? </s>
              <s id="s.015094">ſaltem à no­
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              bis toties admonitus, cùm vult
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              crea­
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              re, ſedem quandam pinguem congerit, atque
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              ex ea folliculum, inde ouum, ita de plantis
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              at hic nobilis peripateticus parum (vt video)
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              in naturæ contemplatione, Galeníque eius
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              admiratoris libris verſatus, imò ne aduer­
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              tent quidem ad ſui Ariſtotelis, quem tan­
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              tum extollit, placita, ordinem illius vniuer­
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              ſum oratione ſua ab ea ſuſtulit. </s>
              <s id="s.015095">In tertia ſe­
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              ctione geminata aduerſatiua reprehendi ab
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              eo non poter at, qui duplici negatiua propo­
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              ſitione, ſtatim in quarta etiam ſenſum elo­
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              cutionis vitiat. </s>
              <s id="s.015096">At is Græcorum mos? </s>
              <s id="s.015097">Græci
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              non ſumus, ſed Latini. </s>
              <s id="s.015098">Hunc tamen ſenſum,
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              vt alios pleroſque attingere non potuit. </s>
              <s id="s.015099">Me­
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              tallica omnia ſubſtantia terrea infrigidant
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              primùm, & durius reddunt: quæ tamen pin­
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              guia ſunt, admodum ſucceſſu temporis emol­
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              liunt, vt aſphaltum. </s>
              <s id="s.015100">Eratne tantum nego­
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              tium intelligere? </s>
              <s id="s.015101">addidi & ſi ſicca, vt longè
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              plura paucis verbis continerem. </s>
              <s id="s.015102">In illa enim
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              orationis parte quam tranſcribit, prima fron­
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              te ſeptem propoſitiones continentur, è qui­
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              bus innumeras, imò totam fermè miſtorum
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              vim in corpora noſtra deducere licet. </s>
              <s id="s.015103">In
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              ſexta diuiſione me, quòd neſciuerim quid
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              eſſet alumen rochæ & liquidum, adeò tur­
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              piter increpat
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              cùm Vannotius Biringurius,
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              quem ſæpius adduco, hoc abundè declara­
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              uerit, & Matthiolus: defendatur verò res
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              hæc à Braſauolo) vt maledicendi anſam præ­
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              ripi voluiſſe videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015104">Quid ſi dicam, liqui­
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              dum vocatum, quòd dum conficitur, metal­
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              lorum more liqueſcat, non vt ſciſſile, vel ro­
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              tundum lapidea forma eruatur? </s>
              <s id="s.015105">Tamen mens
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              mea nunquam fuit hæc. </s>
              <s id="s.015106">Simile illud quod
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              non intelligit, ex quinta ſectione, argentum
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              ſubdulce eſt, iucundíque ſaporis. </s>
              <s id="s.015107">Melioris
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              etiam aurum: ſed non præſtat. </s>
              <s id="s.015108">At alibi de­
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              claraui quomodo præſtet, & libri antea edi­
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              ti erant. </s>
              <s id="s.015109">De bitumine & caphura ſatis in ſe­
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              cunda editione, quantum oportuit dictum,
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              ſed de experimentis quæ adducuntur, neſcire
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              ſe ſimulat hic vir amuleta, non ſemper vi­
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              res ſuas oſtendere, quandoquidem nec quæ
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              per os aſſumuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.015110">Experimenta etiam non
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              facta ſunt vt decebat, vel ipſo teſte à cani­
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              bus, etiam ad homines argumentum non
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              valet. </s>
              <s id="s.015111">Certum eſt, quòd odor eius, vbi diu
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              afficiat hominem, ſitque magnus, multum
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              obeſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015112">Veneri, de attractione ſucci nuſquam
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              ſomniaui: feſtucam trahit vt alatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015113">Hæc
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              enim viuentium opera, ſed velut ripæ à tor­
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              rentibus fit enim quidam æſtus. </s>
              <s id="s.015114">Non omnia
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              pinguia trahunt, quia non ignea. </s>
              <s id="s.015115">Aſpalatum
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              adeò ſanthalo reſpondet, & hoc ſuccedente
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              deſiit, vt ipſummet eſſe credamus: in Italia
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              arbos fuit parua, nunc cùm India omnia ſint
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              proceriora, & ex India noſtrum aduehatur,
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              nihil obeſſe magnitudinem huic ſententiæ
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              dixerim. </s>
              <s id="s.015116">De ſpinis manifeſtum eſt, arbores
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              pleraſque magnas, vbi in paruas degenera­
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              uerint, ſpinoſas fieri. </s>
              <s id="s.015117">Species, odor, calor, vſus
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              conueniunt: cætera non diſcrepant. </s>
              <s id="s.015118">Quòd
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              ſi non eſſe affirmes, non litigabo. </s>
              <s id="s.015119">Cauſas
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              enim hic rerum quæ ſunt, aut quæ eſſe poſ­
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              ſunt, oſtendere decreui. </s>
              <s id="s.015120">Vtrum autem hæc
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              ita ſint, non contendo, cùm quæ non ſunt, &
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              eſſe poſſunt alicubi, vel aliquando erunt: &
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              quæ ſunt alicubi etiam deſunt, aliquandó­
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              que non erunt. </s>
              <s id="s.015121">Salem petræ gemmam vo­
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              co, in Apulia effoditur lapidum aliorum
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              more, lucidus eſt, & accenditur vt fer­
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              rum. </s>
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              <s id="s.015122">Sectione ſextadecima, facit natura aquam,
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              non ex abſynthio aquam: omnia natura ad
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              generationem ſui ſimilis prona ſunt, non ta­
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              men generant, nec ſibi ſimile. </s>
              <s id="s.015123">Tribuit mihi
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              quòd velim Vſnen eſſe anthillidis genus:
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              quòd cùm non dicam ſuperfluum eſſe, exi­
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              ſtimo ſi reſpondeam. </s>
              <s id="s.015124">Vbi ergo præteri­
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              bo, ſciani lectores me ea, quæ arguit non
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              dixiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.015125">In vigeſima ſectione, reprehendit,
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              quod ſe non intelligere fatetur: Duplex ca­
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              lor. </s>
              <s id="s.015126">Nec meminit calorem actu, vbi ad ſum­
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              mum peruenerit ignem eſſe, at hic ſurſum
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              fertur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015127">105 Argentum viuum cogitur ob con­
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              trarium: omne alienum contrarium eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015128">Sic­
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              ca autem maximè, ideò pro exemplo. </s>
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              <s id="s.015129">106 In prima ſectione, charybdis tumul­
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              tuoſa, confragoſa, periculoſa, neſcio quid </s>
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