Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              mans ſapientiam diuinam laudare, imminuit
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              dum de camelo loquitur. </s>
              <s id="s.016013">Cuius ſtructuram
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              more muliercularum in ſolam Dei potentiam
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              refert, atque voluntatem, tanquam laudabi­
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              lius ſit inconnexa quàm coniuncta fabricaſſe.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016014">Ita(vt dixi) miſer hic vbi ad res quæ ſenſibus
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              percipi poſſunt deuenit, falſus perpetuò at­
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              que abſurdus deprehenditur. </s>
              <s id="s.016015">Turpiore inſa­
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              nia illa in fine addit, quæ ſenſum nullum con­
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              tinent, quaſi aſinis ſcribat, atque imponat:
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              tanquam aliquis hic vir ſit, qui nihil à pueri­
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              lis differat. </s>
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              <s id="s.016016">331. Pari ruditate & imperitia fucis quibuſ­
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              dam Rhetoricis, & frigidis ſophiſmatibus, vt
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              imperitam plebem decipiat, in ſeriis rebus lu­
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              dit. </s>
              <s id="s.016017">Si iocari in omnibus ſufficit, quid opus
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              eſt ſtudiis amplius diſciplinarum? </s>
              <s id="s.016018">imò ne arti­
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              bus quidem? </s>
              <s id="s.016019">omnes ſtudete rhetoricæ ſed non
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              Ariſtotelis, aut Ciceronis: ſed nebulonis. </s>
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              <s id="s.016020">332. In tractu ſcobs educitur, atque ita
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              ſcinditur melius. </s>
              <s id="s.016021">Hic homo aut omninò ru­
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              dior aſino eſt, aut diſſimulat ſe intelligere,
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              quorum vitiorum neſcio quod ſit deteſtabi­
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              lius. </s>
              <s id="s.016022">Sed pulchrum eſt, cum ſuas ineptias pro
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              cauſis rerum affert. </s>
              <s id="s.016023">Nam tractus cum impe­
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              tu magno plus eſſe vno cum magno impetu.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016024">At de hoc non minor eſt dubitatio, quàm de
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              primo quæſito. </s>
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              <s id="s.016025">333. De planis cum locus, & verba mu­
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              tata ſint, ſuperfluum eſſet reſpondere, ne ta­
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              men ſua calumna occulta ſit, quid mirum eſt
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              contangi videri quoad ſenſum, ratione co­
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              gnoſcere aërem interceptum: at hoc familiare
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              eſt huic viro, ex muſcis elephantes facere:
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              ipſos elephantes non videre. </s>
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              <s id="s.016026">333. Hic contra Hippocratem, contra Ga­
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              lenum, qui in libris de Elementis, experimen­
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              to id probant, conatur ſuo more vtiliſſimum
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              medicinæ præceptum, ad perniciem humano­
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              rum corporum non minus, quàm animorum
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              natus, ſuis ſolitis meris nugis euertere. </s>
              <s id="s.016027">Sed
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              pulchrum eſt, cum in paucis adeò verbis af­
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              firmat, negat, fruſtráque damnat. </s>
              <s id="s.016028">Nam de An­
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              tilogiis palàm eſt me neminem irridere, cùm
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              etiam multò caſtigatiores non ob has nugas
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              quas obiicit, ſed alia maioris ponderis, nuper
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              in publicum prodituri ſint. </s>
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              <s id="s.016029">337. Hic iam non
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              , ſed
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              veritate ipſa
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              diſceptat. </s>
              <s id="s.016030">Rectà feruntur quæcunque impel­
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              luntur, vt lapides quamdiu ab impetu ſuſti­
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              nentur. </s>
              <s id="s.016031">Oculus docet, nulla ratio aduerſatur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016032">Nam quàm adducit, calumniam meram, &
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              ruditatem eius declarat. </s>
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              <s id="s.016033">339. Stolidus non intelligit difficultatem,
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              ideo negat, quòd adeò Galenus admiratur: in­
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              de falſa adducit in medium. </s>
              <s id="s.016034">Et præter id putat
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              membra per ſe ac anima moueri, cùm à ſpi­
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              ritibus moueantur: nam ſpiritus facultatem,
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              & impulſum ab anima recipiunt, ipſi autem
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              mouent. </s>
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              <s id="s.016035">340. Impudenter ſuo more culpat ordinem
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              quaſi viri illi in eodem genere diſciplinarum
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              de quo ratio ſua concludit, ſcripſiſſent. </s>
              <s id="s.016036">Ibi
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              dum gloriatur, ſe dupliciter vituperat: & quod
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              genus doctrinæ ſuæ quale ſit docet, ſophiſti­
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              cum ſcilicet, & inane, & quod falſi crimine
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              ex coniectutis accuſari poteſt: nam ego qui
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              Mercurij quatuor æquationis orbium motus
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                <foreign lang="grc">φαντασία</foreign>
              concipere poſſum, quædam illius ar­
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              gumenta vix aſſequor. </s>
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              <s id="s.016037">341. Peſſimus hic nebulo, nec vnquam ſi­
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              ne præfatione nominandus à ſuis moribus me
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              vult plagiarij crimine accuſare. </s>
              <s id="s.016038">Inquit me
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              aliena ſcribere geometrica, arithmetica, mu­
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              ſica. </s>
              <s id="s.016039">Primùm quæro metopoſcopia à quibus
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              ante nos tradita ſunt? </s>
              <s id="s.016040">Similiter in geometria,
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              arithmetica, & muſica, quid acceptum ſit ab
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              aliis, cùm edita erunt, ſi poteſt, obiiciat? </s>
              <s id="s.016041">De
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              tribus elementis, de eorum frigiditate, de dua­
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              bus tantùm qualitatibus, de æthere, de vrinis
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              innumeráque alia in medicina & naturali
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              philoſophia inuenta, cui authori audebit aſ­
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              cribere? </s>
              <s id="s.016042">Sed ſi pro quolibet mendacio illi pi­
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              lus non ampliùs rediturus excideret, profectò
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              iam totus glaber eſſet: nonne iam illum pu­
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              det tam enormíum ac manifeſtorum menda­
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              ciorum? </s>
              <s id="s.016043">Inde conuerſus ad poëtas, quas ine­
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              ptias profert, quam temerario auſu iudex in­
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              ter Homerum ac Virgilium à ſeipſo conſtitu­
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              tus, furorem poëticum referre conatur, ſed fu­
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              rorem video, poëtam non video. </s>
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                <foreign lang="grc">Ἐκεῖνον εἴργειν τεῡκρος ἐξεφίεται
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                σκήνης ὔπαντον μηδ̓ ἀφίεναι μόνον. </foreign>
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              <s id="s.016045">342. Cùm de fine cognoſcendi agamus, ille
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              de fine entium non nouo exemplo interpre­
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              tatur. </s>
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              <s id="s.016046">343. Non recitat fideliter verba noſtra:
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              forſan error fuit anagnoſtæ, vel typographi.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016047">Mediocris ad maximum comparatus, prauus
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              dicitur: humidum multum, mediocréque idem.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016048">Quoniam tria ſunt, maximum, mediocre &
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              nullum, exiguum autem pro nullo habetur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016049">Attractio quæ eſt facultas nutricis animæ,
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              non trahit vt ſol, vel ignis, reliquáque quæ
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              ſic citata magis trahunt. </s>
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              <s id="s.016050">344. Hic recté monet: gratias illi habeo,
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              vtinam hoc ſæpe feciſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.016051">Sed dum ſcribebam,
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              malui inutilia addere quam vtilia prætermit­
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              tere: nam quæ omiſi, reſtituere non poſſum
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              amplius, exciderunt enim multa: quæ perpe­
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              ràm addidi præcidere poſſum. </s>
              <s id="s.016052">De lupo demi­
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              ror cur obiicias illa, cum ego experimentum
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              vidiſſe me referam, & rationem reddam cur
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              non ſemper id eueniat. </s>
              <s id="s.016053">Quæ ex Ariſtotele
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              transfert, non ſunt cauſæ ſympathiæ, aut anti­
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              pathiæ, ſed inimicitiarum, aut amoris, Sunt
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              autem quinque, ſi diligentius diſtinguantur:
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              natura iracunda, vt quorundam canum, qui
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              omnibus infeſti ſunt: ſunt enim ſimiles ægris.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016054">Cibus communis, aut cùm vnam alteri cibus
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.016055">Venus loca & parata noxa ſibi, vel proli.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016056">At de antipathia, & ſympathia, & faſcinatio­
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              nibus ſatis alibi dictum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.016057">De hircino ſan­
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              guine, & adamante, nondum conſtat illi an
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              ſit verùm, & tamen de hoc diſputat. </s>
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              <s id="s.016058">347. Turpiſſimè vides debacchari propter
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              errorem, quem quis mihi ſani capitis impu­
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              tauerit? </s>
              <s id="s.016059">Indicio eſt non habere meliora quæ
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              obiicit. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.016060">344. Non diſtinguit curationem doloris à cu­
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              ratione cauſæ. </s>
              <s id="s.016061">Curatur dolor ſic etiam teſte
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              Hippocrate. </s>
              <s id="s.016062">Cauſa etiam non per ſe: ſed quan­
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              doque quaſi fortuito calore naturali confir­
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              mato. </s>
              <s id="s.016063">De Græculo non noui, ſed inuentum
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              putabam meum. </s>
              <s id="s.016064">Ideò tanto veriorem cauſam
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              reddidiſſe opinor, poſtquàm duo caſu
                <expan abbr="quodã">quodam</expan>
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              ex præſcripto in eandem deuenimus
                <expan abbr="opinionẽ">opinionem</expan>
              . </s>
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              <s id="s.016065">349. Reſponſum eſt in ipſo opere in tertia
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              editione, quod eam quæſtionem duxerim eſſe
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              neceſſariam ſcitu. </s>
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