Galilei, Galileo, De Motu Antiquiora
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                  In which is explained the correspondence that natural mobiles have with the weights of a balance.</s>
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                  <s id="id.1.1.6.01.01">Thus we will first examine the things that happen in the scale pan, so that we may then show that all these things happen in the case of natural mobiles.</s>
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                  <s id="id.1.1.6.02.01"> Thus let line ab be understood to be an equal-armed balance, whose center, above which motion takes place, is c, precisely dividing line ab in two; and let two weights, e and o, be suspended from points a and b. </s>
                  <s id="id.1.1.6.02.02">Accordingly in the case of weight e three things can happen: either it is at rest, or it is moved upward, or it is moved downward. </s>
                  <s id="id.1.1.6.02.03">Consequently if weight e is heavier </s>
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