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<arrow.to.target n="marg1724"></arrow.to.target><lb/> Cùm deinde vitrum planèè refriguit, e&longs;t valde du­<lb/> rum, &longs;ed &longs;imul etiam valde fragile, atque eò frigilius <lb/> quò citiùs refriguit. </s><s>Nempe duritiei cau&longs;&longs;a e&longs;t, quòd <lb/> con&longs;tet tantùm particulis &longs;atis cra&longs;&longs;is &, inflexilibus, <lb/> quae non ramulorum intextu, &longs;ed immediato contactu
<arrow.to.target n="marg1725"></arrow.to.target><lb/> &longs;ibi invicem adhaerent. </s><s>Alia enim pleraque corpora <lb/> ideò mollia &longs;unt, quòd eorum particulae &longs;int flexiles <lb/> vel certè de&longs;inant in ramulos quo&longs;dam flexiles, qui <lb/> &longs;ibi mutuò annexi eas jungunt. </s><s>Nulla autem duorum <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg1726"></arrow.to.target><lb/> corporum firmior adha&longs;io e&longs;te pote&longs;t, quàm ea quae <lb/> oritur ex ip&longs;orum immediato contactu; cùm &longs;cilicet <lb/> ita &longs;e invicem tangunt, ut neutrum &longs;it in motu ad &longs;e ab <lb/> alio &longs;ejungendum; quòd accidit vitri particulis, &longs;tatim <lb/> atque ab igne remotae &longs;unt: quia earum cra&longs;&longs;ities, & <lb/> contiguitas, & figurae inaequalitas impediunt, ne
<arrow.to.target n="marg1727"></arrow.to.target> po&longs;­<lb/> &longs;int ab ae<gap/>re circumjacente in eo motu, quo ab invicem <lb/> disjungebantur, con&longs;ervari. </s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg1724"></margin.target>CXXVII. <lb/> Cur, cùm frigidum e&longs;t, <lb/> fit valde durum. </s></p>
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<arrow.to.target n="marg1728"></arrow.to.target><lb/> At nihilominus vitrum e&longs;t valde fragile, quia &longs;uper­<lb/> ficies &longs;ecundùm quas ejus particulae &longs;e invicem tan­<lb/> gunt, &longs;unt admodum exiguae ac paucae. </s><s>Multaque alia
<arrow.to.target n="marg1729"></arrow.to.target><lb/> corpora molliora di&longs;&longs;iciliùs franguntur, quia eorum <lb/> partes ita &longs;unt intertextae, ut &longs;eparari non po&longs;&longs;int, quin <lb/> ip&longs;arum multi ramuli rumpantur & evellantur. </s></p>
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<s><margin.target id="marg1728"></margin.target>CXXVIII. <lb/> Cur valde fragile. </s></p>
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<arrow.to.target n="marg1730"></arrow.to.target><lb/> E&longs;t etiam fragilius cùm celeriter, quàm cùm lentè, <lb/> refriguit; ejus enim meatus &longs;unt &longs;atis laxi dum candet,
<arrow.to.target n="marg1731"></arrow.to.target><lb/> quia tunc multa materia primi elementi, &longs;imul cum <lb/> globulis &longs;ecundi, ac etiam fortè cum nonnullis ex <lb/> tenuioribus tertii particulis, per illos tran&longs;it. </s><s>Cùm au­<lb/> tem refrigeratur &longs;ponte, redduntur angu&longs;tiores; quia <lb/> &longs;oli globuli &longs;ecundi elementi, per ip&longs;os tran&longs;euntes,
<arrow.to.target n="marg1732"></arrow.to.target><lb/> minùs &longs;patii requirunt; atque &longs;i refrigeratio nimis cele-