<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ed="firstPrint" n="8" xml:id="B01S0392Z25fp" />Vt discrimen rationum <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="spaced">antecedenter</hi> & <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="spaced">consequenter</hi> determinantium exemplo illustrem: Eclipses satellitum Jovialium nuncupo quas dico <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="spaced">rationem cognoscendi</hi> suppeditare successiuae & celeritate assignabili factae propagationis lucis. Verum haec ratio est consequenter tantum determinans hanc veritatem; si enim vel maxime nulli adforent Jouis satellites, nec eorum per vices facta occultatio, tamen lux perinde in tempore moueretur, quanquam cognitum forsitan nobis non esset, <abbr xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">s.</abbr> vt ad definitionem datam propius applicem, phaenomena satellitum Jouialium successiuum lucis motum probantia, supponunt hoc ipsum lucis ingenium, sine quo ita contingere non possent, ideoque consequenter tantum hanc veritatem determinant. Ratio autem fiendi, <abbr xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">s.</abbr> cur motus <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ed="oldAA" n="393" xml:id="B01S0393" />lucis cum assignabili temporis dispendio junctus sit, (si sententiam <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" key="cartes"><ref type="editorialNote" target="#en39301">Cartesii</ref></persName>  <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="critApp" xml:id="app39302">amplecteris,)</ref> in elasticitate globulorum aëris elasticorum ponitur, qui secundum leges elasticitatis ictui aliquantulum concedentes, quod in quouis globulo absorbent punctum tempusculi, per seriem immensam concatenatam summando, perceptibile tandem faciunt. Haec foret ratio antecedenter determinans, <abbr xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">s.</abbr> qua non posita determinato locus plane non esset. Si enim globuli Aetheris perfecte duri forent, per distantias quantumlibet immensas nullum, emissionem inter & appulsum lucis, perciperetur temporis interuallum.