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

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              ties departing, if it ſhall be more grave
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              in ſpecie
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              than Water, fil but its
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              Poroſities with Water, and you ſhal have a Compoſt of Water and
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              of Wood more grave than Water, but not by vertue of the Water
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              ceived into and imbibed by the Poroſities, but of that Matter of the
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              Wood which remains when the Air is departed: and being ſuch it
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              ſhall, according to the Doctrine of
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              Archimedes,
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              goe to the bottom,
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              like as before, according to the ſame Doctrine it did ſwim.</s>
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              T
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              he Authors
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              ſwer to the third
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              Objection.</s>
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              <s>As to that finally which preſents it ſelf in the fourth place, namely,
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              that the
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              Ancients
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              have been heretofore confuted by
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              Ariſtotle,
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              who
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              denying Poſitive and Abſolute Levity, and truely eſteeming all
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              dies to be grave, ſaid, that that which moved upward was driven by
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              the circumambient Air, and therefore that alſo the Doctrine of
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              Archimedes,
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              as an adherent to ſuch an Opinion was
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              victed and confuted: I anſwer firſt, that
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              Signor Buonamico
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              in my
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              judgement hath impoſed upon
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              Archimedes,
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              and deduced from his
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              words more than ever he intended by them, or may from his
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              ſitions be collected, in regard that
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              Archimedes
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              neither denies, nor
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              mitteth Poſitive Levity, nor doth he ſo much as mention it: ſo that
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              much leſs ought
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              Buonamico
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              to inferre, that he hath denyed that it
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              might be the Cauſe and Principle of the Aſcenſion of Fire, and other
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              Light Bodies: having but only demonſtrated, that Solid Bodies
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              more grave than Water deſcend in it, according to the exceſs of their
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              Gravity above the Gravity of that, he demonſtrates likewiſe, how the
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              leſs grave aſcend in the ſame Water, accordng to its exceſs of
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              ty, above the Gravity of them. </s>
              <s>So that the moſt that can be
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              ed from the Dem onſtration of
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              Archimedes
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              is, that like as the exceſs
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              of the Gravity of the Moveable above the Gravity of the Water, is
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              the Cauſe that it deſcends therein, ſo the exceſs of the Gravity of
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              the water above that of the Moveable, is a ſufficient Cauſe why it
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              cends not, but rather betakes it ſelf to ſwim: not enquiring
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              ther of moving upwards there is, or is not any other Cauſe contrary
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              to Gravity: nor doth
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              Archimedes
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              diſcourſe leſs properly than if one
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              ſhould ſay: If the South Winde ſhall aſſault the Barke with greater
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              Impetus
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              than is the violence with which the Streame of the River
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              ries it towards the South, the motion of it ſhall be towards the North:
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              but if the
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              Impetus
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              of the Water ſhall overcome that of the Winde, its
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              motion ſhall be towards the South. </s>
              <s>The diſcourſe is excellent and
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              would be unworthily contradicted by ſuch as ſhould oppoſe it, ſaying:
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              Thou miſ-alledgeſt as Cauſe of the motion of the Bark towards the
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              South, the
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              Impetus
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              of the Stream of the Water above that of the
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              South Winde; miſ-alledgeſt I ſay, for it is the Force of the North
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              Winde oppoſite to the South, that is able to drive the Bark towards
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              the South. </s>
              <s>Such an Objection would be ſuperfluous, becauſe he which
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              alledgeth for Cauſe of the Motion the ſtream of the Water, denies not </s>
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