Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, 1670
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Ex Carteſio
aquæ parti­
culæ ſunt ob
longæ, flexi­
biles, vt an­
guillæ, per­
petuò agita­
tæ, & hinc
guttas aquæ
pendulas ſu­
ſtineri poſſe
cenſent.

Cap. 7. de
natura flui­
ditatis.
PROP. CLV.
Oſtenditur abſurditas talis poſitionis
Carteſianæ.
AT ſi talis eſt aquæ natura, ſequitur vt eius par­
ticulæ ſint animatæ, oportet enim vt percipi­
ant, & eligant motus, & inflexiones, quæ neceſſarię
ſunt ad prædictum effectum producendum. Nam ſi­
cuti illi vermes neceſsè eſt vt partim inſinuentur iņ
ſupremas caſei poroſitates non directè, ſed tortuosè
capita inflectendo, vt nimirùm efficiant hamos, vel
vncinos, & è contrà infimæ partes vermium penden­
tes debent quoque inflecti, vt alios vncinos efforment,
in quibus ſubſequentes vermes adrepant, debent­
que paritèr ſubſequentes vermes non ſecùs incurua­
ri, vt duplices vncinos componerent in eius extremita­
tibus. idipſum efficere deberent anguillæ illæ aquam
componentes. At quomodo perſeuerare poſſet ag­
geries prædictarum aquæ anguillularum, niſi prædi­
ctæ earum curuitates ſumma ſolertia, & prouidentia
fierent, & perſeuerarent, prout neceſſitas ſuſtentatio­
nis ponderis earumdem exigit. Et ſi non prouiden­
tia, ſed caſu, vt conſentaneum eſt; monentur, quomo­
do poſſent perpetuò agitari, & inflecti quin aliquan­
do vncini illi diſſoluti ſe mutuò non retinerent? vide­
tur enim impoſſibile vt vniuerſa maſſa virgularum̨
aquæ aliquando, ſaltem per breue tempus non diri­
gatur, vel ſaltem diuerſo modo flectatur, quàm opus

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