What does 'spatio pollicarir emotius' mean in Otto von Guericke's Experimenta Nova?

Question

In Otto von Guericke's Experimenta Nova (1672) he says (in reference to experiments showing how a feather floats above and sometimes is reattracted to a globe of sulphur):

5. Filum lineum, si acumini ligni acuminati, inque mensâ vel scamno firmati inhærescere facias, atque filum ulnâ longius demittas, ita quidem, ut infra ibi aliud quid, spatio pollicarir emotius, attingere possit, (Quoties scil. globus excitatus, summitati hujus ligni admoveatur) inferius fili cum iuxta apposito, conjungi: Quo ad oculos demonstrandum, hanc virtutem in filo lineo usque ad partes infimas se extendisse, dum hoc, aut attrahit aut seipsum alligat.

Source. (Emphasis mine.)

I believe emotius is the comparison form of ēmōtus (ppl from ēmōvēre), and since ulna is nearby, I thought pollicarir might be related to pollex (thumb), but I couldn't find another usage. What does this part of the paragraph mean?

Answer 1

I believe pollicarir to be a typographical error, as spatio pollicari (from pollicaris) would mean "by a thumbsbreadth." This exact collocation isn't classical, as far as I can tell, but seems quite in keeping with the several versions found in Pliny: pollicari crassitudine, pollicari latitudine, pollicari amplitudine.

As for emotius, that could be another error, as emotus by itself is intelligible, or maybe even remotius (?), but I do think it's possible that a neo-Latin writer might treat emotus as an adjective from which a comparative could be formed.