Galilei, Galileo
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Discourse concerning the natation of bodies
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1663
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goes to the bottom, if it be filled with water; of which he in the
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lowing Chapter, which is the 30 of the fifth Book copiouſly
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eth: but I (ſpeaking alwayes without diminution of his ſingular
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Learning) dare in defence of
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deny this experiment, being
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certain that a piece of Wood which by its nature ſinks not in Water,
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ſhall not ſinke though it be turned and converted into the forme of
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ny Veſſell whatſoever, and then filled with Water: and he that would
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readily ſee the Experiment in ſome other tractable Matter, and that is
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eaſily reduced into ſeveral Figures, may take pure Wax, and
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king it firſt into a Ball or other ſolid Figure, let him adde to it ſo
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much Lead as ſhall juſt carry it to the bottome, ſo that being a graine
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leſs it could not be able to ſinke it, and making it afterwards into
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the forme of a Diſh, and filling it with Water, he ſhall finde that
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out the ſaid Lead it ſhall not ſinke, and that with the Lead it ſhall
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ſcend with much ſlowneſs: & in ſhort he ſhall ſatisfie himſelf, that the
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>I ſay not all this while, but that
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its poſſible of Wood to make Barkes, which being filled with water,
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ſinke; but that proceeds not through its Gravity, encreaſed by the
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Water, but rather from the Nailes and other Iron Workes, ſo that
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it no longer hath a Body leſs grave than Water, but one mixt of Iron
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and Wood, more grave than a like Maſſe of Water. </
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deſiſt from deſiring a reaſon of an effect, that is
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not in nature: yea if the ſinking of the Woodden Veſſell when its full
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of Water, may call in queſtion the Doctrine of
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which
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he would not have you to follow, is on the contrary conſonant and
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greeable to the Doctrine of the Peripateticks, ſince it aptly aſſignes a
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reaſon why ſuch a Veſſell muſt, when its full of Water, deſcend to the
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bottom; converting the Argument the other way, we may with
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ſafety ſay that the Doctrine of
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is true, ſince it aptly
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eth with true experiments, and queſtion the other, whoſe
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ons are faſtened upon etroneouſs Concluſions. </
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hinted in this ſame Inſtance, where it ſeemes that
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Benonamico
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ſtands the ſame not only of a piece of wood, ſhaped in the forme of a
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Veſſell, but alſo of maſſie Wood, which filled,
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ſcilicet,
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as I believe, he
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would ſay, ſoaked and ſteeped in Water, goes finally to the bottom
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that happens in ſome poroſe Woods, which, while their Poroſity is
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pleniſhed with Air, or other Matter leſs grave than Water, are
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ſes ſpecificially leſs grave than the ſaid Water, like as is that Viall of
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Glaſs whileſt it is full of Air: but when, ſuch light Matter
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ing, there ſucceedeth Water into the ſame Poroſities and Cavities,
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there reſults a compound of Water and Glaſs more grave than a like
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Maſs of Water: but the exceſs of its Gravity conſiſts in the Matter
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of the Glaſs, and not in the Water, which cannot be graver than it
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ſelf: ſo that which remaines of the Wood, the Air of its </
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