Theological Theses · §482

Animals — sensitive life and local motion

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Animals: more organs, freer motions than plants.

Not place-fixed; vary acts by sensory impressions.

Sensitive + loco-motive faculties above vegetative life.

Latin

VII. Sed praeter istud primum & infimum viventium genus, in terrae superficie, in aquis, in aere ipso extant corpora plurima longe pluribus & magis admirandis organis distincta, & quae etiam nobilioribus facultatibus pollent, motusque multo plures & magis diversos exercere possunt. Etenim non solum vim habent alimento intus suscepto seipsa nutriendi, & augmentum sumendi, ac simile sibi procreandi: sed praeterea non sunt ut priora uni certo loco affixa, verum seipsa de loco in locum transferre valent, neque sunt, quemadmodum plantae, ad unum certum & simplex operationum genus a natura sic determinata, ut non possint nisi semper eodem modo moveri & agere: sed saepe aliter atque aliter agunt, & motus suos varie temperant, raro diversis impressionibus quas intus ab objectis variis suscipiunt mediantibus organis quae Philosophi sensoria appellant. Et illa sunt quae animalia vocantur, quae sponte supra terrae superficiem, in aere & in aquis variis motibus cientur, & per sensus objecta externa percipiunt: adeoque supra plantas pollent facultate sensitiva atque loco motiva.

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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