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

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              lucidum, intercepto ſolùm quaſi hiatulo, propter flam­
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              mam deficientem: at procùl ſanè erit, vt videas. </s>
              <s id="s.002250">Iube
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              aliunde occultari totum circumſtans ſpatium, adeò vt
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              ſola flammula foramine facto libera videatur; deberet
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              tum ea flammula non maior videri, ſed minor, pro ra­
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              tione diſtantiæ: & tamen procùl aberit, vt contractio­
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              rem videas, & non maiorem potiùs, ac perinde prorsùs,
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              vt libero ſpatio. </s>
              <s id="s.002251">Niſi verò iſtud non arguit aliam fuiſſe
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                φαινομθυ
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              , quàm halituoſas illas parteis in ſpa­
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              tium circumſtans diffugienteis, requirendam cauſ­
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              ſam? </s>
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              <s id="s.002252">XXXIX. </s>
              <s id="s.002253">Itaque aliam requiſiui (affectionem
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              putà in pupilla, acretina) quæ vt effectui in candela ap­
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              parenti congrueret, ita lucidis omnibus, quorum ſpe­
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              cies noctu increſcit, accommodari congruè poſſet. </s>
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              iuſmodi maximè ſunt tam Luna, quàm Stellæ, ſeu
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              Errantes, ſeu
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              : nam Lunæ quidem diametrum
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              non ſemel obſeruauimus octaua propè ſui parte noctu,
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              quàm interdiù maiorem: Veneris vero diametrum
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              multis maiorem vicibus; & Iouis conſimiliter (quippe
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              qui fuerit etiam nobis ſæpenumerò obſeruatus inter­
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              diù) conſtatque vniuersè Stellas cæteras, cùm interdiù
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              ſint inconſpicuæ, in gruente tamen crepuſculo æger­
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              rimè primùm ob exilitatem videri, ac deinde magis,
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              magiſque, dum ſenſim grandeſcunt, viſibileis fieri.
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              <s id="s.002255">Quæſo verò iſta-ne valeant ad halituoſas aliquas par­
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              teis, quæ vt à flamma, ſic à Luna, Stelliſque diffugiant,
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              referri; & non potiùs ad vberiorem tum pupillæ dila­
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              tationem, tum impreſſionem retinæ factam, donec
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              oculus in tenebris degit? </s>
              <s id="s.002256">At hæc tamen cauſſa, in-</s>
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