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

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              denique gradus exilitatis, quo propter hanc imminu­
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              tionem Stellæ Fixæ exhibentur incomparabiliter mi­
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              nores Planetis, habita ratione diſcorum apparentium:
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              ſcilicet, quòd ipſarum radii & excurrant longè vberiùs,
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              & longè proinde ampliùs circum-radient. </s>
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              <s id="s.002215">XXXVII. </s>
              <s id="s.002216">Atque hæc quidem omnia eo ſolùm fine
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              commemoro, vt innuam, Qua ratione Sol è Fixis ſpe­
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              ctatus, tametſi ſuo diſco exilis, appariturus tamen foret
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              luce adeò circum-diffuſa, vt, tanquam ſpatia in­
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              gentia complens, apparenter exæquaretur, aut to­
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              ti, aut ſaltem inſigni portioni regionis Planetariæ,
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              cuiuſmodi eſt Orbis magnus, de quo fuit potiſſimùm
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              quæſtio. </s>
              <s id="s.002217">Et fac certè Solem non apparere maiorem,
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              quàm magnitudinis ſextæ Stellam: quia tunc vera dia­
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              meter eius erit vno ſecundo minor, hoc eſt, ex iam di­
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              ctis, tertiorum quinquaginta; orbis magni diameter
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              continebit ducenties, aut plus paulò certè, quinqua­
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              ginta tertia (quippe totidem vicibus diametrum Solis
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              continet) efficietur, ſi ea reducas, vt Orbis magni dia­
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              meter apparitura non ſit maior duobus minutis cum
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              dodrante, ſeu quàm appareat diameter Stellæ magni­
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              tudinis primæ, aut ſecundæ. </s>
              <s id="s.002218">Quòd ſi Stellarum dia­
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              metri ſint adhûc minores, quàm Galileus cenſuit, ob
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              inſinuatam antè cauſſam; & magnitudinis ſextæ Stella
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              non ſit maior diametro, quàm ſextans ſecundi, ſiue
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              decem tertia; efficietur eadem ratione, vt Orbis magni
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              diameter apparitura maior non ſit, quàm appareat dia­
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              meter Stellæ magnitudinis ſextæ. </s>
              <s id="s.002219">Dices, profectò,
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              figmentum meum tantò magis increſcere, quantò hac
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              ratione veræ Stellarum diametri magis imminuuntur. </s>
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