N i fera contorto tempeltas vortice raptet.
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Sic quoque parva globis fi.levibus atque minutis
Conltaret moles, illi per lubrica pollent
’ 2470
Convolvi tenui v i, non difcedere jundti;
Namque trahens forti retinet compage poteftas. :
Proin fluidis- in rebus ubi difeerpere partes
Tentes, diirumpi paulacim, & non nifi parva’
Parte queunt; quare guttarum humore, madentes. 4 4 75
Spelunca: retinent pendentes fornice lymphas,
Adventu donec longo rorantis aquai
Grandior & gravior gutta: propendeat1humor;
Pondere, vida etenim producitur, & gracilefcit
L I B E R D E C I M U S .
493
Paulatim in medio, filoque
Decidit, & terram prolapis
p e rfid e a d h x r c n tc reraan eatjn u -
m erus particularum ita e x i g u u s ,
ut earum a ttra & iv a vis v in ca tu r
a pondere inferioris m a f l a : / q u o
ubi d even tum fit,citiflim e a b r u m
pitur m a lli ipfa,
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g u tta decidit,
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p a r t ic u lis , q u x c o n flitu e ra n t fi
lum abrup tum , .aliis verfus fo r
n ic e m , aliis verfus g u t t a m caden
tem . Q u i ejusm odi p b x n o m c n a
d iligen tiu s co n te m p le tu r, videbit
fa n c fem p er fibi c o n fo r m e m m o
d um , q u o N a tu ra e v o lv it fua
p h x n o m c n a
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v iriu m a & iv a r u m
in gen tem illum ad e o ru m e v o lu
tion em .
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agen tem in latus im p e d itu r cir
cuitio p a rticu lx circa p a rticu lam ,
tum vero h ab e n tu r phaenom ena
foliditatis > orta n im iru m ex eo ,
q uod debeat (eparari in gen s n u
m erus particularum f i m u l , a d e o
q u e requiritur Y i s , q u x fim ul
vincat fu m m am o m n iu m v iriu m ,
quibus ip f x a d h x re n t . Id accidit
ubi v irg a folida r u m p itu r .u t v ir
g a f e r r e a . E tiam ibi o b (olidira-
tem n on pcrfe<ftam ( n ibil enim
in N a tu r a habet ullam propieta-
tem in fu m m o g ra d u , ub i a gitu r
dc tnaflis.com pofitise. lirap iid b u s
a f i m p l i c e d e m u m
2 4 8 0
r i g a c q u c , c a v a t o u e .
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fim u l re p a ra n tu r, fed fila n o n n u l
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a b r u m p u n tu r
alia p o ft alia ; a t m u lto plu ra de
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q u am a q u a .
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tis d iftin & a , co n cip ia tu r ite ru m
ille g lo b u s T e n a e x q u a lis ,
Sc
lae
vis c u m in ge n ti c o n g e rie g l o b o
r u m m in o ru m itidem l x v i u m ipfi
i m p o l i t o r u m . C o n c ip ia n tu r a u
tem hi m in o re s g lo b i p r x d iti v i
gra v ita tis in T e r r a m ipfarn ;
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vi m u tu a in fe in vicem , fed ica ,
ut utraque, e x te n d a tu r ad' diftart-
tiam p e rq u am e x ig u a m , m in o r e m
n i m i r u m , q u a m fit g lo b i Unius
d ia m e te r ,u t vis m ag n e tica itid em
e xte n d itu r ad e x ig u a m d ifta n ti-
a m : p o fte rio r a uccm refpecfcu
prioris n o n fit ita e xigu a , uri e ft
reipfa , fed potius c& m a jo r . Si
quis arripiat u n u m « jufm d di g l o
b u m ,
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ip fius cantum
i
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haerens d eb u it a c c u m iK jtfd lo c u m
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