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machinativus

machinativus [LL] , pertaining to the science of mechanics, mechanical; b (sb. f.) mechanics. sic dicit ‥ Aristoteles: ‘demonstratio non convenit in aliud genus, sed aut sicut dictum est, geometrice [sc. demonstrationes] in mechanicas et ~as aut speculativas, et arithmetice in harmonicas’ [Arist. An. Post. 76a22–5] Kilwardby OS 114.  b per ~am potest subintelligi ‥ etiam astronomia ratione instrumentorum ei servientium Kilwardby OS 115.

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