Galilei, Galileo, Discourse concerning the natation of bodies, 1663
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              T
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              he Authors
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              confutation of
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              the Peripateticks
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              Cauſes of
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              tion &
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              on.</s>
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              Water & other
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              fluids void of
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              Reſiſtance
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              gainſt Diviſion.</s>
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              T
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              he
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              nancy of
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              ments in
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              ables to be
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              ſidered only in
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              relation to their
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              excefs or defect
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              of Gravity in
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              reference to the
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              Medium.
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              T
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              he
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              ate Cauſe of
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              tation is that the
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              Moveable is leſs
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              grave than the
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              Water.</s>
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              T
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              he
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              ticks alledge for
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              the reaſon of
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              Natation the
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              Cauſe of the
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              Cauſe.</s>
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              Gravity a
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              Cauſe moſt
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              ſpicuous to
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              ſence:</s>
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              <s>Let us not then deſpiſe thoſe Hints, though very dark, which
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              Reaſon, after ſome contemplation, offereth to our Intelligence,
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              lets be content to be taught by
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              Archimedes,
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              that then any Body
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              ſubmerge in water, when it ſhall be ſpecifically more grave than it
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              and that if it ſhall be leſs grave, it ſhall of neceſſity ſwim, and
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              that it will reſt indifferently in any place under water, if its
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              be perfectly like to that of the
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              Lib 1. of
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              tation Prop. </s>
              <s>7.</s>
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              Id. </s>
              <s>Lib. 1.
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              Prop. </s>
              <s>4.</s>
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              Id. </s>
              <s>Lib. </s>
              <s>1:
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              Prop. </s>
              <s>3.</s>
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              <s>Theſe things explained and proved, I come to conſider that which
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              offers it ſelf, touching what the Diverſity of figure given unto the
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              ſaid Moveable hath to do with theſe Motions and Reſts; and
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              ceed to affirme, that,</s>
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              <s>THEOREME V.</s>
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              The diverſity of Figures given to this or that Solid
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              cannot any way be a Cauſe of its abſolute Sinking
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              Swimming.
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              Diverſity of
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              Figure no Cauſe
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              of its abſolute
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              Natation or
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              merſion.</s>
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              <s>So that if a Solid being formed, for example, into a Spherical
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              Figure, doth ſink or ſwim in the water, I ſay, that being formed
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              into any other Figure, the ſame figure in the ſame water,
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              ſink or ſwim: nor can ſuch its Motion by the Expanſion or by
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              ther mutation of Figure, be impeded or taken
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              The
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              on of
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              F
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              igure,
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              tards the
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              ty of the aſcent
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              or deſcent of the
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              Moveable in the
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              water; but doth
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              not deprive it of
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              all Motion.</s>
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              <s>The Expanſion of the Figure may indeed retard its Velocity,
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              well of aſcent as deſcent, and more and more according as the ſaid
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              gure is reduced to a greater breadth and thinneſs: but that it may bere
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              duced to ſuch a form as that that ſame matter be wholly hindred from
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              moving in the ſame water, that I hold to be impoſſible. </s>
              <s>In this I have
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              met with great contradictors, who producing ſome Experiments, and
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              in perticular a thin Board of Ebony, and a Ball of the ſame Wood
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              and ſhewing how the Ball in Water deſcended to the bottom, and
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              the Board being put lightly upon the Water ſubmerged not, but
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              ed; have held, and with the Authority of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              confirmed them
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              ſelves in their Opinions, that the Cauſe of that Reſt was the
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              of the Figure, u able by its ſmall weight to pierce and penetrate the
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              Reſiſtance of the Waters Craſſitude, which Reſiſtance is readily
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              vercome by the other Sphericall Figure.</s>
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              <s>This is the Principal point in the preſent Queſtion, in which I
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              ſwade my ſelf to be on the right ſide.</s>
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              <s>Therefore, beginning to inveſtigate with the examination of
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              quiſite Experiments that really the Figure doth not a jot alter the
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              cent or Aſcent of the ſame Solids, and having already
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              ted that the greater or leſs Gravity of the Solid in relation to the
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              vity of the
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              Medium
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              is the cauſe of Deſcent or Aſcent: when ever we </s>
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