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

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              vmbra, comparatáque cum circulo ſpeciem Solis citra
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              teleſcopium in obſcura ſcena referente) deprehenſus,
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              inquam, eſt triente minuti non maior; adeò vt cùm
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              eſſe apparet minutorum trium (quo tempore deberet
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              etiam aliquantò minor videri, quàm dum præcisè in
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              perigeio verſatur) diſcus eius octogies ſemel, quàm
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              reuerâ ſit, amplificarior appareat. </s>
              <s id="s.002211">Fidem quoque
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              Iupiter, & Mars: qui cùm Acronychi illam Veneris
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              æmulentur, obſeruati ſunt tamen à me ex
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              comparatione cum diametro Lunæ vix diametro eſſe
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              vnius minuti. </s>
              <s id="s.002212">At inſtabis, hoc
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                <expan abbr="per-exiguũ">per-exiguum</expan>
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              omninò eſſe reſpectu immanis illius, quod affingitur
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              ſtellis Fixis. </s>
              <s id="s.002213">Sed nempeid fieri videtur, quòd lux Pla­
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              netarum mutuatitia ſit, & ab illorum ſuperficiebus de­
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              biliſſima reddita, ob diſtractos Solareis radios (quippe
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              quatenus ſuperficies inæquabiliſſimæ ſunt, & facies
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              habent aliò, alióque variè diuergenteis, vt de Luna
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              quidem manifeſtum eſt, & coniicere de cæteris licet)
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              at ex oppoſito lux Fixarum videtur natiua, ac propria,
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              & Solaris inſtar, vt puriſſima, ita viuidiſſima; adeò vt ab
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              exiguo diſco (longè minore ſcilicet, quàm ſit Planeta­
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              ris) procedens, tum fortiùs moueat oculum, tum cir­
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              cumradiationem vberiorem pariat: tum apparentem
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              proptereà diſcum amplificatiorem exhibeat. </s>
              <s id="s.002214">Argu­
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              mento autem eſſe poteſt, primùm continens illa ſcin­
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              tillatio, qua radii Fixarum excurrunt, & quam Ariſto­
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              teles quoque ex motu non Stellæ, ſed oculi eſſe conten­
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              dit: ac deinde experimentum factum teleſcopio, quod
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              cætera cùm amplificet, Stellas tamen Fixas imminuit,
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              ob ipſam nempe reſectionem radiorum excurrentium: </s>
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