Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              mali ſunt: nihil prohibet philoſophia ſupe­
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              rare naturam. </s>
              <s id="s.015753">Hoc namque Socrates dixit,
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              Galenuſque teſtatur, tum theologi, & om­
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              nes ſapiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.015754">Sunt autem mali, quia lumina­
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              rium alterum in horum genituris à malefi­
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              cis ſuperatur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015755">296. Vide quomodo contractio ſit remiſ­
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              ſio à grauitate, cùm in febribus perſæpè ex­
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              tenſione ſit celeriter. </s>
              <s id="s.015756">Sed hoc volui ſcrip­
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              ſiſſe ad eos, qui peripatetica iſta fundamen­
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              ta adeò mordicus retinent: nam hoc illi hic
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              ſuo more imponere nolo, tractauimus autem
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              aliàs diligenter. </s>
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              <s id="s.015757">297. Non aliud facit, quàm quod decla­
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              rat, quantò principia noſtra peripatetico­
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              rum quorundam interpretationibus ſint me­
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              liora, poſtquam nos quatuor verbis ſuffi­
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              cienter ac declaratiuè depreſſimus, quæ ille
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              tot chartis, nec poteſt perſuadere. </s>
              <s id="s.015758">Sed adeò
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              liuore amens eſt, vt cauſam non ſolùm ſuam
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              procedat, ſed quantum in ſe eſt, etiam om­
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              nium peripateticorum, ne noſtræ inuentio­
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              ni ſubſcribat. </s>
              <s id="s.015759">Reprehendit hæc rana rami­
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              cum curatrix directè, volens ſubſtituere ex
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              aduerſo, cùm è regione, & non ſinuosè ad
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              oculum ſpecies ferantur, quorum neutrum
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              generale eſt auditui, vel olfactui. </s>
              <s id="s.015760">Ecce vi­
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              des ſtultitiam cum imperitia. </s>
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              <s id="s.015761">298. Non minus turpi lapſu hic cadit,
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              quod ei adeò familiare eſt, vt audeam dice­
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              re in toto hoc libro, vbi res aliqua natura­
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              lis tractatur, & non nugæ, ac gerræ vix
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              vnquam attigiſſe ſcopum, ſed vbique fal­
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              ſum deprehendi. </s>
              <s id="s.015762">Ecce non videt diſcrimen
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              inter illuminare, quòd certè ſenſim fit at­
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              que progreditur, vt nos antea docueramus,
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              vbi de luce, & lumine egimus, & vnius ra­
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              dij tranſitum, qui neceſſariò fit repente, vt
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              facilè ex ecclipſi ſolis, & mathematicè, &
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              naturaliter declarari poteſt In quarta ſectio­
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              ne, conatur veras cauſas tollere, nec habet,
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              quod ſubſtituat: nam de mortuis, qui eos
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              eſſe non exiſtimant, tamen & ipſi timent.
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              <s id="s.015763">Deinde ſi cauſam haberet manifeſtam, non
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              eſſet contentio inter medicos, & philoſo­
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              phos. </s>
              <s id="s.015764">Ita hic vir, ad deſtruendum bonas ar­
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              tes ſolùm natus videtur. </s>
              <s id="s.015765">Sic in ſequenti ſe­
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              ctione, tactus etſi deſtruatur, reparatur, vi­
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              ſus non ita. </s>
              <s id="s.015766">In ſeptima non intelligit, tam
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              inſtrumentum, quàm facultatem compre­
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              hendi eo figuræ genere. </s>
              <s id="s.015767">De ſimiis neutrum
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              eſt, cùm vtrunque adeſſe velit: diu enim
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              odoratu explorant, quia parùm eo ſenſu
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              valent: nec argumentum à ſimia ad ho­
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              minem probat, niſi eandem demonſtraueris
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              eſſe compoſitionem in vtroque. </s>
              <s id="s.015768">Canes olfa­
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              ctu quantum præſtant, tantum viſu defi­
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              ciuntur: nam nec propè agnoſcunt domi­
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              num, niſi olfactu experiantur. </s>
              <s id="s.015769">In decima
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              rurſus damnat Ariſtotelem, vt me accuſet.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015770">Segmenta illa cùm ſcribebam, nondum
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              omnia mihi comparaueram, prodibunt Deo
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              volente emendatiora: ſed non ob hoc friuo­
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              la, ſed ob res maioris momenti. </s>
              <s id="s.015771">Verùm & in
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              commentariis aliam rationem ex Ptolemæo
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              ſecuti ſumus, ſiquidem & aliter colorum
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              eſſentiam, nomina, & ordinem conſtitue­
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              bamus, cum de ecclipſi loqueremur. </s>
              <s id="s.015772">Cæte­
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              rùm, quæ in 11. ſectione adiicit, perfectè
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              vanitatem ſuam declarant, vt vix credam
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              eſſe ſua. </s>
              <s id="s.015773">Se grauiorem iudicio, animo viui­
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              diore? </s>
              <s id="s.015774">ſit ita: ex ore ſuo tamen, quàm de­
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              ceant intelligis? </s>
              <s id="s.015775">at corpore robuſtiore, fa­
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              milia nobiliore quid ad propoſitum? </s>
              <s id="s.015776">Simi­
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              le illud in 246. exercitatione: Canes tui
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              fortuna ſua defuncti ſunt: hunc dictato­
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              rem alterius vitæ ( caput ſanè noui ) opor­
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              tet eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.015777">Sic ſimile illud de iudicio eſt ſo­
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              phiſmati Entisberi. </s>
              <s id="s.015778">Ego dico falſum: ſi
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              enim hæc profert, iudicio non valet? </s>
              <s id="s.015779">Sed
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              ignoſcendum illi audio enim Vaſcones il­
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              los, apud quos degit, malos vicinos eſſe, qui
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              cùm illum laudare vnquam noluerint, ſæ­
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              piùs cogitur præco eſſe laudum ſuarum.
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              <s id="s.015780">Multi enim cùm hæc deliramenta legerent,
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              non è dignitate mea putabant eſſe, vt quic­
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              quam illi reſponderem: at ego maiores bu­
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              cella ſoleo deuorare, veritatis amore. </s>
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              <s id="s.015781">299. Sæpè dixi maiori ſtultitia me nota­
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              ri debere, qui tam ſtultis reſpondeam obie­
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              ctionis: ſed tamen volo, vt intelligant ho­
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              mines, quàm leuibus anſis innitatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015782">Eſt
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              vbique dolor, & voluptas, non qualis in
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              Venere, ſed qualis ſcalpendo in ſcabie, ca­
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              lefaciendo in frigore, titillando, atque dum
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              ſanantur vulnera. </s>
              <s id="s.015783">Eſt aliud proprium in
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              genitalibus membris, quod dolorem pro
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              contrario non habet, quia naturæ neceſſe
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              fuit: nam & in eiſdem membris adeſt ter­
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              tium genus, ſcilicèt dolor, & voluptas,
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              communia toti corpori: ſed quiá voluptas
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              ad irritanda animalia ad Venerem non ſuf­
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              ficiebat, alia addita eſt alterius generis do­
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              lor, non cùm generalis ſufficeret. </s>
              <s id="s.015784">Hæc &
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              alia ſi ſic expoſuiſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.015785">Hæc & alia ſi ſic expo­
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              ſuiſſet: nec voluiſſet ſpontè deſipere, maio­
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              rem legentibus voluptatem, cunctis vtili­
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              tatem, ſibi gloriam comparaſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.015786">Ergo ſimi­
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              li vanitate dolorem dicit non ſentiri: nos
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              aliàs docuimus, ex ipſa experientia, &
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              Conciliatoris autoritate ita ſentiri, vt nihil
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              aliud ſentiretur: ſed nebulo hic quicunque
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              ſit, vbi ſe in illa, quam vocat prima philo­
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              ſophia inuoluit, vt in cœno ſus volutatur,
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              hoc ſolum nixus, vt omnia confunderet,
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              omnia benè inuenta tolleret, ſuam vani­
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              tatem oſtenderet. </s>
              <s id="s.015787">Voluptas, & dolor ( in­
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              quit ) ſenſio eſt, ſenſio non ſentitur, vbi
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              primùm ſenſionem inuenit Latinè Latiniſ­
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              ſimus vir? </s>
              <s id="s.015788">ſed omittamus, voluptas, & do­
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              lor ſenſus ſunt: hoc enim Latinum eſt, &
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              nulla affectatum cura: quid ſi quis neget ti­
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              bi, quod iure negandum? </s>
              <s id="s.015789">vbi probas, quod
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              probare debes? </s>
              <s id="s.015790">ſed, vt dicitur, principium
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              petis: quod maximè declarari poſtulabat;
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              tanquam clarum præſupponis. </s>
              <s id="s.015791">O amentiam
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              ſingularem? </s>
              <s id="s.015792">audaciam intolerandam? </s>
              <s id="s.015793">per­
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              tinaciam faſtidioſam? </s>
              <s id="s.015794">moreſque, qui etiam
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              Iobi patientiam frangerent? </s>
              <s id="s.015795">nam ego de
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              hac virtute ſolebam gloriari, non de ſa­
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              pientia, vel eruditione, aliiſque ſimilibus
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              vt tu. </s>
              <s id="s.015796">Verùm & hanc mihi deeſſe Deus me
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              docuit, vt qui paucitatem, morbos, calum­
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              nias, coniurationes facilè pertulerim, huius
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              nugæ, amentiaque ad hæc quæſcio me di­
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              gna non eſſe, coactum irritarint: male ge­
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              nio nate? </s>
              <s id="s.015797">At dicet quiſpiam, cur adeò iraſ­
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              ceris? </s>
              <s id="s.015798">non ob eius calumnias, non ob ma­
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              ledicta, non ob falſas interpretationes,
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              quamvis in omnibus modum exceſſerint, </s>
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