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esse expectandam, nisi a flamma alicujus profunditatis : 

 nani aliter vergit ad diaphanum. Hoc auteni pro certo 

 ponendum, luecm semper in corpore anpiali aut excipi 

 ct transmitti, aut resilire. 



(6.) Similiter, sit natura inquisita, motus missilium 19 ; 

 veluti spiculorum, sagittarum, globulorum, per aerem. 

 II line motum schola (more sno) valde negligenter ex- 

 prdit ; satis liabcns, si euin nomine motus violenti a 

 natural! (quern vocant) distiuguat ; et quod ad primam 

 percussionem sive impulsionem attinet, ]&amp;gt;er illud ((juod 

 duo corpora n&amp;lt;i, possint &amp;lt; s*c iti ft/to loco, m fiat pene- 

 f ratio dimensionum] sibi satisfaciat ; et de processu 

 continuato istius motus niliil curet. At circa hanc na- 

 turam bivium cst tale : aut iste motus fit ab aere ve- 

 liciite, et pone corpus emissum se colligente, instar 

 fluvii erga scapham, aut venti erga paleas ; aut a par- 

 tibus ij)sius corporis non sustinentibus impressionem, 

 sod ad eandem laxandam per successionem se proino- 

 ventibus. At&amp;lt;|ue priorem ilium reoipit Fracastorius 20 , 

 et fere omnes (|iii de hoc motu patilo subtilius iuquisi- 

 verunt: uo(jiie dubium est, quiii siut aeris partes in hac 

 re iiouuulhr; sed alter motus proculdubio verus est, ut 

 e\ infinitis coustat experimentis. Sed inter cameras, 

 poterit esse circa hoc subjectum inxtatitia crttci.s talis; 

 quod lamina, aut filum ferri paulo contumacius, vel 

 etiam calamus si\v penua in medio divisa, adducta et 



1!) The motion of missiles. opposed to the Copernkan hypo- 

 &quot; Schola&quot; here probably means all thesis ; and he wrote a book, en- 

 existing Philosophers, with the ex- titled Homocentrica, to simplify 

 ception of Bacon. This &quot; motus that explanation of heavenly Phe- 

 missilium&quot; is now safely housed as nomena, which made Earth the cen- 

 a branch of Dynamical Science ; tre-point of the system, and placed 

 and all discussions as to Violent the planets one after another, and 

 and Natural Motion, &c. are at an finally the &quot; Ccelum Stellatum,&quot; in 

 end. fixed orbits of aether, all concentric 



- Cf. supra, II. 35. (note 97.) in the earth. See Drinkwater s Life 



Fracastoro s views were violently of Galileo, p. 13. 



