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# Title: Nicolai Mercatoris Holsati, è Soc. Reg. Institutionum Astronomicarum Libri Duo, De Motu Astrorum Communi & Proprio, Secundum Hypotheses Veterum & Recentiorum præcipuas; Deqve Hypotheseon ex observatis constructione (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 63)
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Sect. 20
ASTRONOMTA.
quiescirins; radius ab oculo ad. Solem est g0: Dico hune
radium gc versus eandem mundi plasam dirisi, versus quam
ex racius x n dirigitur, esseque q0radium radio xn paral-
lelum, qui proinde racdii paralleli siinimmensum porrisan-
cur ad Sphaeram usque fixarum, videbuncur in unam arque
eandem lineam conlescere; liquidem immenta lonsitudo, ad
quam exrenduntur, Facie ue distancia ipsorum quali ad niti-
lum redacta eraneleat, videaturque ob hoc Sol in eodem Fir-
mamenri puncto, sive per gcradium, sire per alterum u n
spectetur; lintque proinde eadem phaenomena Solis futura.
live hic circa Tellurem morearur, live concra. Ileque eMt.
quod contra tam vastam Firmamenei expansionem excipiac
quisquam; (iquidem omnino talem ac cancam esse revera,
argumento est, quod Sirins v. or. qui nudo oculo Jovem
Dene aequare videtur magnicudine, per celescorium camen
non nili punctum merum appareat, dum Jupirer eodem in-
ltrumento conspectus uno oculo, acque ad Lunam collatus
oculo alrero nudo visam, triplo majorem diamerrum obtinere
videtur, quam ipta. Fnimrere C nihilo longius abforer
Sirius, quam Tupicer, vix minor fore videretur per relesco-
Dium. Unde collisere licer, quam nulla sic incer distanciam
Poris de Sirii proporrio. Praeterea li conliderentur omnium
Clanetarum mocus tam rarii e mulciplices; nimirum dire-
ctionis, sationis, e retropradationis; cardiratis irem e
velociratis, accessus ex recessis à cellure; augmenrique d
decremenei lacicudinis, e magnicudinis apparenris; quae
omnia phaenomena unico mocu rerrae annuo circa Solem ex-
elicari possune; cui non hac verisimile, rellurem revera
circumire Solem? Praelertim cum orbis Sacurni sit pene de
cuplo major Solis orbe, Tovis quincuplo, _ Marris Cel-
cuplo; nec credibile sic minores circulos, qualis eA Solis
orbita, geltare majores superiorum orbicas, quemadmo-
dum Tychonica hypochesis postulat. Uc raceam, quod in
hac orbica Marris lecar orbitam Solis, Poticque ob hoc cerris
temporibus Marris corpus in illud spacii mundani succedere,
in quo aliis remporibus solfuir; id quod in primariis Pla-
net