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

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              ſecundorum poſſet? </s>
              <s id="s.002228">Iam igitur, cùm æquum ſit re­
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              putare lucem Stellarum ſuperare ſua puritate, ſuóque
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              ſplendore lucem flammulæ, fuligini craſſæ, fumove
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              commiſtæ, multis vicibus: poſtulo dumtaxat, vt ſuperet
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              ter, ſi putes flammulam videri, quæ ſit angulo dimidij
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              ſecundi; aut ſexies, ſi putes eam ſolùm, quæ ſit ſecundi
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              integri. </s>
              <s id="s.002229">Nempe exinde efficietur, vt Stella viſibilis ſit,
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              quæ vera diametro ſubtendet non angulum modò
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              vnius ſecundi, ſed angulum etiam ſextantis ſecundi. </s>
              <s id="s.002230">Iſta
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              vberius non proſequor; ne cauſſeris non poſſe me meis
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              figmentis facere finem. </s>
              <s id="s.002231">Adnoto tamen; cùm ex iam
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              dictis, Stella magnitudinis ſextæ eſſe non debeat Sole
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              maior; ecquid-nam dicturus de figmento fuiſſes, ſi
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              propoſuiſſem cum Landſbergio Stellam magnitudinis
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              ſextæ eſſe vicies quinquies ipſo Orbe magno maiorem?
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              <s id="s.002232">Et ille tamen viſus eſt ſibi ex certis principiis demon­
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              ſtraſſe omnia: quanquam illud ſaltem non cauit, quod
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              circum-radiatio imponit circa magnitudinem veram:
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              quodque proinde diameter vna Stellæ magnitudinis
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              ſextæ eſt longè minor quinque ſecundis, ſecùs quàm
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              ab illo ſuppoſitmu eſt. </s>
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              Hûc accommodari non potuiſſe cauſſam quæ redditur vulgò,
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              quare flammæ noctu maiores appareant.
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              <s id="s.002234">XXXVIII. </s>
              <s id="s.002235">Ad te vt redeam, poſtquàm præmiſiſti,
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              non probare me commodè figmentum exemplo candelæ,
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              ſic
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              pergis,
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              Quæcùmque enim cauſſa ſit, cur flamma candelæ, ad
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              certam præſertim diſtantiam, ſemper auctior appareat: ſatis
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              certè tibi conſtat Lunam, ac Martem, ipſumque etiam Solem,
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