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# Title: Phoronomia, Sive De Viribus Et Motibus Corporum Solidorum Et Fluidorum Libri Duo (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 182)
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P R A F A Y I O
te rerolrens pro ca, qua crar ingenii sagacitare, limitatam illam
duoderioinei cubitorum alticudinem in aneliis a decerminata
aemosphaerae preltione provenire posse demum lulpicari caepit,
Qua de re ut certior heret, cum hydrargYIO CXPCLIENEUM EeNEA-
ric, e, ut prxelasiebat, relpondit crentus. Tamnobile inventum
diu delicelcere non porerat, nam paulo polt ejus ortum Aa-
tim in Callia aliisque regionibus percrebuit, de curiolorum ani-
inos in se convercit. Hlinc Blasius Palcalius lagacilsimi inge
nii jurenis, quae tama ex Italia arculerat experiundi cupidus,
non linc insioni volupeatis senlu ea omnia iceratis experimen
tis veritari consentanea invenit, e experimenti procellum at-
que erentum in peculiari libello De Graritare AEmosphaerae (De
la Pesanteur de la Masse de l’Air) expoluic, cui alium ingeniolum
cractatum De AEquilibrio Liquorum peaemisir. Pascalii cona-
cus deinceps Anolorum ingenia excicarie, atque inter ca C cleber-
rimum Philosophix experimentalis cultorem Robertum Boy-
lium, qui in Paradoxis luis HIrdroctaricis experimenta captutacil-
lima, atque ab innumeris cum luccestu repetita, memoriae pio-
didit; haec vero omnia lacius pertractara multisque aucta fue-
re a Borellio e Mariotto, quorum opera noriora lunt, quam
ut ulla recensione indigeant, ambo enim hi AutOreS, Praetei
TIrdrostatica, etiam plura ad hydraulicam perrinentia attise-
runt, de moribus aquarum aliisque, in quibus, quem antea lau-
dari, Torricellius, e Benedictus Cactellus iplis tacem praetule
runt; Culielminus vero doctrinam de moru aquarum magis
deinceps auxie, atque Auminibus feliciter applicuit; verum lau-
daris hisce viris ulterius longe processie Celeberrimus Petrus
Varienon, qui eam FIrdraulicae partem, quae mensuram liquo-
rum Auentium respicie, plurimum procendit in duobus praecla-
ris speciminibus Actis ACademix Regia Parisiensis insertis,
quorum prius circa constructionem omnis generis Clepsy-
dearum verlatur; alterum vero argumentum de liquoribus et-
Auen-