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Quod si cui mortalium cordi et curae sit non tantum inventis hserere, atque iis uti, sed ad ulteriora 

 penetrare; atque non disputando adversarium, sed opere naturam vincere ; denique non belle et probabiliter 

 opinari, sed certo et ostensive scire; tales, tanquam veri scientiarum filii, nobis (si videbitur) seadjungant. 

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