Palace and watch: chance cannot build the universe-machine

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Who credits a palace or a clock to chance scrap-heaps?

This universe outdoes any palace in art and proportion.

No machine shows more motions — more marvelous, more constant.

Latin

XXXIII. Et certe quis est, qui, dum palatium aliquod splendide, & ex arte extractum contemplatur, aut horologium quoddam affabre fictum, quod variis rotis & motibus inter se compositis, horas, dies, & lunae phases notat & dimetitur, in animum inducat ista casu facta esse, & lignis atque lapidibus, aerisque & chalybis particulis quibusdam temere congestis exorta? At quodnam Palatium excogitari potest majori arte, & symmetria structum, & ubi proportiones omnes melius observatae sint, quam ipsum hoc universum, quod oculis nostris obversatur? Aut quaenam est machina in qua plures motus, magisque mirabiles, & in summa varietate magis constantes, observari possint?

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

Witnesses

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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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