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

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              oporteret medium flammæ apparentis, ſiue quod ex
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              vera eſt flamma ſplendidius eſſe, niſi millecuplò, at cen­
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              tuplò ſaltem (imò, vt ampliùs largiar, ſaltem decuplò)
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              quàm amplitudinem circumſtantem: & nihilominùs
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              tota illa flamma apparet eſſe vniuſmodi, ſeu æquè lu­
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              cida tam ſub medium, quàm ad extrema. </s>
              <s id="s.002243">Quod aiunt
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              verò
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              illas parteis fieri è longinquo adfpectabileis in minore
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              lumine:
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              nonne & ipſa vera flamma in eodem lumine
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              videtur? </s>
              <s id="s.002244">Quid ergo eſt cauſæ, cur luce illarum par­
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              tiùm cominùs exili (imò ad ipſum ſenſum nulla) acci­
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              piente
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              , ipſa quoque lux veræ
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              eadem
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              proportione
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              accipiat: ſicque
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              ſemper diſcriminis
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              fit, ſiue ex
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              ſiue ex propinquo videatur? </s>
              <s id="s.002245">Quod
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              autem dicunt,
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              illas è vicino ab eximio flammæ splendore oc­
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              cultari:
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              quî poteſt quæſo intelligi, vt occultentur ab eo
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              ſplendore, à quo habent, vt ſplendeant, adſpectabileſ­
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              ve, vt contendunt, fiant. </s>
              <s id="s.002246">Nam quod vulgò quidem
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              etiam dicunt,
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              lumen maius occultare, obfuſcare, aut obli­
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              terare minus:
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              id minùs verè dicitur; fit enim potiùs ex
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              vtróque compoſito lumen intenſius: tametſi, quæ viſus
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              hebetudo eſt, diſcerni gradus non valeant, qui ab vtró­
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              que conferuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.002247">Quòd inſuper
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              lucidum minus cum
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              maiore comparatum viſibile fiat non propè, ſed procùl:
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              id
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              probabile fieret, ſi ſpectato procul minore lucido, ma­
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              ius abeſſet, nec iuxtim foret; at ſi vtrumque ſimùl vi­
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              deatur, neceſſe eſt, vt proportione debilitationis ob
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              ſpatium ſeruata, tam procùl, quàm propè videri non
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              poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.002248">Et quid heic contingat, experiri vis? </s>
              <s id="s.002249">Iube oc­
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              cultari præcisè flammulam candelæ non circumſtans
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              ſpatium: deberes adhûc videre ſpatium perinde prorsùs </s>
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