Altera planitie jaceat teluris in requa ,
A!ujra at huic ipfi parte innitatur ab una,
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alia parte haud contingat; ut hifcant
Sic paulum interfe, mediamque attingere gutum ,
Guttam olei,. Hefpcridum quod fudanc aurea mula,
Admotam poflmt : non gutta quiefeee, eodem
Prrefertim fuerint fi vitra humeda liquore;
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P H I L O S O P H I A
id oleum fim ili a tt r a d io n c perva
d e r e t , l i , a n g u lo fatis e x ig u o ,
fatis ccnue cilbt v itio r u m in te rv a l
lu m .
C o n c lu d it N o fte r , etiam
inde
eru i,, efte vim a liq uam a tc ia d iv a m
in te r particulas c o rp o ru m , q u x
e xten d atu r ad e x ig u am diftantiam ;
addic ea vinci g ra v ita te m ipfam :
V d u r ia m a t f a d i o n i s dc gravitate
N c v v to n u s probite lioc ipso expe
rim en to a d je d a la m in x h o r iz o n ta
lis in clin atio n e 5 'fed N o fte r
nc
in infinitum abeat p o e m a , om it
tit plura , q u x non (piu p rorfus
n eflaria , & pro v id o V ia ipfa in
n u i t f e . jam alia exp erim en ta
proculific : 'eft in ter ipfa utique
etiam afccn fus a q u x i n t r a hiatum
la m in a ru m vh rearum pofitarum
in f i t u ' v c r c i c a l j ' & intra tubos
Cipillures . 'Addic a m a d i o L e m
particu larum g u t t x ' pendentis a
F o n i c e / in qu o p h x n o m c n o vis
attrahens vincit' g ra v ita tem : id
autem pende: partim ab a tt r a d io -
n c particularum guttae m u tu a ,
partim ab e a , qua illae
q u x fpnt
fornici p r o x i m x , a ttr a h u n tu r ab
ipfo fornice : addic
aqu am
,
q u x
in cy a th o plen o aiTurgit in tu m e -
fccns , quin ad latps d e f lu a t / ub i
vis gravitatis v in citu r 'itidem ab
a tt r a d io n c : fed *id p h x n o m e n u m
pendet tan tu m ab a t t r a d io n c m u
tua p articularum a q u x , 'quam ad
ju v a t potius a liqua' repuffio,quiim
ipfum v ttrum in d iftan tiis pau llo
m ajo rib u s exercet iu a q u a m : fic
fibi viam fternit ad tra n fitum ab
a tt r a d io n c , q u x h a b e tu r in una
diftantia , ad r c p u l lio n e m , q u x
h ab e tur in alia .
N c v v to n u s oleo
m ali
ci trini
q u o d m alum vocat a u re u m , addit
sp iritum te re b y n rin x , q u i idem
p r x s tc t : deinde p r x te r e x p e rim e n
tum ', in q u o p rio r la m in a sit
horizontalis., addit id ^ q u o d innui.,
in clin atio n em n im iru m illius la.
m in a ; , ubi cum in e x ig u a in clin a,
tion c adhuc illa g u tta ascendat ^
p a tet., g ra v ita rem vinci a v i a ttr a -
idiva ; deinde m etitu r ipsam v im ,
in clin an d o , donec g u tta definac
ascendere , q u o casu vis a t t r a d iv a
gra v ita ti x q u a tu r ( aequabitur u ti
que , (i a u d a n o n nihil in clin a tio n e
in cipiat stacim descendere , n am
si adhuc m anear
,
h a b e b itu r etiam
aliquis e ffe d u s fortasse fn d i o n i s
K
E x o b fe rv a tio n ib u s eo m o d o h a b i
tis d eterm in at ration em ipsam , in
qu a crescit vir. a tt r a d iv a , q u am in
pari particula superficiei attrahentis
in ven it recip ro cam in terva lli inter
vitra . Inde d e d u c i t , v im fere im .
m en sam , q u x haberi d eb et in in
tervallis illis m in im is , in q u ibu s
la m e llx tenues sunt n i g e n i m x ,
a tq u e inde co n clu d it , im m a n e m
cfle vim
j
q u a in se m u t u o ' a g e re
poffint e x i g u x p a r t ic u lx o rd in u m
in fe rio rum , c quibus m ajores c o n
stent ad'explican dam vim c o h x fio -
nis co m in o ix m , qu o m agis aflur-
jgitqr ad alciorum o r d in u m p a rti
cu las ,
d o n et
deveni a tu r ad h an c
