Io. Bapt. Portae Neapolitani Magiae natvralis libri XX (1589)
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615 · Neapoli : Apud Horatium Saluianum · leaf 299
a2 MAGIAE N ATVR, LIBER XVHI. tabilium caufam prouenire, quod fortaffe operi-huic dicato declarabimus: vnde vis vacui efficit , vt contra naturz normam leuia defcendanc, & grauia afcendant ; adeó neccffarium eftin mundo nil effe finecorpore. Igiturhis przlibatisad aliqua defcendamus , & primó .… … Sit inuerfum vas. AB. aqua repletum, cuius os inferius. B. fnbmerfümin ampli , & patuli oris vas CD. aquarepletum,eodem liquore, velgrauiori, dico aquam cx vafe AB. noo defcenderc . Nam (i aquain vafe AB contenta defcenderet,oporteret grauiorcm effeaqua in cratere CD contenta, diximus effe ciuf-…
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