Galilei, Galileo
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Discourse concerning the natation of bodies
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1663
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or theſe others, a ſimple negation, or privation, ſuch as Vacuity
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would be in reference to Repletion, argueth againſt
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Democritus
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and
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ſaith: If it be true, as you ſuppoſe, then there ſhall be a great Maſs
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of water, which ſhall have more of Fire, than a ſmall Maſs of Air,
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and a great Maſs of Air, which ſhall have more of Earth than a
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tle Maſs of water, whereby it would enſue, that a great Maſs of Air,
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ſhould come more ſwiftly downwards, than a little quantity of
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water: But that is never in any caſe ſoever: Therefore
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diſcourſeth erroneouſly.</
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Ariſtotle
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ſhews
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his deſire of
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finding
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critus
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in an
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veting Truth.</
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Cap. 5. Text 41.</
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>But in my opinion, the Doctrine of
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Democritus,
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is not by this
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gation overthrown, but if I erre not, the manner of
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deduction
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either concludes not, or if it do conclude any thing, it may with
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quall force be reſtored againſt himſelf.
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Democritus
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will grant to
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Ariſtotle,
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that there may be a great Maſs of Air taken, which
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tains more Earth, than a ſmall quantity of water, but yet will deny,
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that ſuch a Maſs of Air, ſhall go faſter downwards than a little water,
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>Firſt, becauſe if the greater quantity
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of Earth, contained in the great Maſs of Air, ought to cauſe a greater
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Velocity than a leſs quantity of Earth, contained in a little quantity
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of water, it would be neceſſary, firſt, that it were true, that a
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greater Maſs of pure Earth, ſhould move more ſwiftly than a leſs:
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But this is falſe, though
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Ariſtotle
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in many places affirms it to be true:
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becauſe not the greater abſolute, but the greater ſpecificall Gravity,
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is the cauſe of greater Velocity: nor doth a Ball of Wood,
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ing ten pounds, deſcend more ſwiftly than one weighing ten Ounces,
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and that is of the ſame Matter: but indeed a Bullet of Lead of four
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Ounces, deſcendeth more ſwiftly than a Ball of Wood of twenty
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Pounds: becauſe the Lead is more grave
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in ſpecie
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than the Wood.
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>Therefore, its not neceſſary, that a great Maſs of Air, by reaſon of
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the much Earth contained in it, do deſcend more ſwiftly than a little
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Maſs of water, but on the contrary, any whatſoever Maſs of water,
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ſhall move more ſwiftly than any other of Air, by reaſon the
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pation of the terrene parts
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in ſpecie
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is greater in the water, than in the
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Air. </
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>Let us note, in the ſecond place, how that in multiplying the
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Maſs of the Air, we not only multiply that which is therein of terrene,
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but its Fire alſo: whence the Cauſe of aſcending, no leſs encreaſeth,
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by vertue of the Fire, than that of deſcending on the account of its
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multiplied Earth. </
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>It was requiſite in increaſing the greatneſs of the
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Air, to multiply that which it hath of terrene only, leaving its Fire
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in its firſt ſtate, for then the terrene parts of the augmented Air,
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overcoming the terrene parts of the ſmall quantity of water, it might
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with more probability have been pretended, that the great
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ty of Air, ought to deſcend with a greater
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Impetus,
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than the little
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quantity of water.</
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