Galilei, Galileo, Discourse concerning the natation of bodies, 1663

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              though the Concluſions are true, yet are the Cauſes thus aſſigned
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              deficient, nor is it true, that the Solid in ſubmerging, raiſeth and
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              repulſeth Maſſes of Water, equall to the parts of it ſelf ſubmerged;
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              but the Water repulſed, is alwayes leſs than the parts of the Solid
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              ſubmerged: and ſo much the more by how much the Veſſell in
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              which the Water is contained is narrower: in ſuch manner that it
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              hinders not, but that a Solid may ſubmerge all under Water,
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              out raiſing ſo much Water in Maſs, as would equall the tenth or
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              twentieth part of its own Bulk: like as on the contrary, a very
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              ſmall quantity of Water, may raiſe a very great Solid Maſs, though
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              ſuch Solid ſhould weigh abſolutely a hundred times as much, or
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              more, than the ſaid Water, if ſo be that the Matter of that ſame
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              Solid be
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              in ſpecie
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              leſs grave than the Water. </s>
              <s>And thus a great
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              Beam, as ſuppoſe of a 1000 weight, may be raiſed and born afloat
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              by Water, which weighs not 50: and this happens when the
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              ment of the Water is compenſated by the Velocity of its Motion.</s>
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              How the
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              merſion of
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              lids in the
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              ter, is effected.</s>
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              What Solids
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              ſhall float on the
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              Water.</s>
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              What Solids
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              ſhall ſinke to the
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              botome.</s>
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              What Solids
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              ſhall reſt in all
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              places of the
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              ter.</s>
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              The Gravitie of
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              the Water and
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              S
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              olid muſt be
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              compared in all
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              Problems, of
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              tation of Bodies.</s>
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              The water
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              pulſed is ever leſs
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              than the parts of
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              the Sollid
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              merged.</s>
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              A
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              ſmall quantity
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              of water, may
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              float a very
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              great Solid Maſs.</s>
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              <s>But becauſe ſuch things, propounded thus in abſtract, are
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              what difficult to be comprehended, it would be good to demonſtrate
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              them by particular examples; and for facility of demonſtration, we
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              will ſuppoſe the Veſſels in which we are to put the Water, and place
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              the Solids, to be inviron'd and included with ſides erected
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              cular to the Plane of the Horizon, and the Solid that is to be put
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              into ſuch veſſell to be either a ſtreight Cylinder, or elſe an upright
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              Priſme</s>
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              The which propoſed and declared, I proceed to demonstrate the truth
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              of what hath been hinted, forming the enſuing Theoreme.
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              THEOREME I.
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              <s>The Maſs of the Water whichaſcends in the
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              merging of a Solid, Priſme or Cylinder, or that
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              abaſeth in taking it out, is leſs than the Maſs of
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              the ſaid Solid, ſo depreſſed or advanced: and
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              hath to it the ſame proportion, that the Surface
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              of the Water circumfuſing the Solid, hath to the
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              ſame circumfuſed Surface, together with the Baſe
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              of the Solid.</s>
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              <s>
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                <emph type="italics"/>
              T
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              he Proportion
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              of the water
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              ſed to the
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              S
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              olid
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              ſubmerged.</s>
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              Let the Veſſell be A B C D, and in it the Water raiſed up to the
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              Levell E F G, before the Solid Priſme H I K be therein immerged;
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              but after that it is depreſſed under Water, let the Water be raiſed as
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              high as the Levell L M, the Solid H I K ſhall then be all under Water,
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              and the Maſs of the elevated Water ſhall be L G, which is leſs than the
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              </s>
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