Galilei, Galileo
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Discourse concerning the natation of bodies
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1663
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De Cœlo
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>Here I note, that the Concluſions of
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in generall are all
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true, but methinks, that he applyeth them to particulars, in which
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they have no place, as indeed they have in others, as for Example,
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Wax is more eaſily diviſible than Lead, and Lead than Silver,
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aſmuch as Wax receives all the terms more eaſiler than Lead, and
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Lead than Silver. </
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ver is eaſlier divided than a great Maſs: and all theſe Propoſitions
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are true, becauſe true it is, that in Silver, Lead and Wax, there
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is ſimply a Reſiſtance againſt Diviſion, and where there is the
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lute, there is alſo the reſpective. </
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there be no Renitence againſt ſimple Diviſion, how can we ſay, that
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the water is eaſlier divided than the Air? </
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tricate our ſelves from the Equivocation: whereupon I return to
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anſwer, that Reſiſtance of abſolute Diviſion is one thing, and
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ſiſtance of Diviſion made with ſuch and ſuch Velocity is another.
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>But to produce Reſt, and to abate the Motion, the Reſiſtance of
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abſolute Diviſion is neceſſary; and the Reſiſtance of ſpeedy
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viſion, cauſeth not Reſt, but ſlowneſs of Motion. </
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in the Air, as in water, there is no Reſiſtance of ſimple Diviſion, is
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manifeſt, for that there is not found any Solid Body which divides
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not the Air, and alſo the water: and that beaten Gold, or ſmall
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duſt, are not able to ſuperate the Reſiſtance of the Air, is contrary
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to that which Experience ſhews us, for we ſee Gold and Duſt to go
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waving to and again in the Air, and at laſt to deſcend
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wards, and to do the ſame in the water, if it be put therein, and
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parated from the Air. </
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nor the Air do reſiſt ſimple Diviſion, it cannot be ſaid, that the water
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reſiſts more than the Air. </
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ple of moſt light Bodies, as a Feather, or a little of the pith of
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der, or water-reed that divides the Air and not the water, and from
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this infer, that the Ait is eaſlier diviſible than the water; for I ſay
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unto them, that if they do well obſerve, they ſhall ſee the ſame
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Body likewiſe divide the Continuity of the water, and ſubmerge in
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part, and in ſuch a part, as that ſo much water in Maſs would weigh
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as much as the whole Solid. </
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that ſuch a Solid ſinks not through inability to divide the water, I will
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return them this reply, that if they put it under water, and then let it
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go, they ſhall ſee it divide the water, and preſently aſcend with no leſs
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celerity, than that with which it divided the Air in deſcending: ſo that
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to ſay that this Solid aſcends in the Air, but that coming to the water,
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it ceaſeth its Motion, and therefore the water is more difficult to be
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divided, concludes nothing: for I, on the contrary, will propoſe them
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a piece of Wood, or of Wax, which riſeth from the bottom of the
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water, and eaſily divides its Reſiſtance, which afterwards being </
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