Galilei, Galileo, Discourse concerning the natation of bodies, 1663

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              it into a Ball, and thruſt it unto the Bottom of the water; and
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              faſten to it as much Cork, or other light matter, as juſt ſerveth to
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              raiſe it, and draw it towards the Surface: for afterwards changing
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              the ſame Wax into a thin Cake, or into any other Figure, that
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              ſame Cork ſhall raiſe it in the ſame manner to a hair.</s>
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              <s>This ſilenceth not my Antagoniſts, but they ſay, that all the
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              diſcourſe hitherto made by me little importeth to them, and that it
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              ſerves their turn, that they have demonſtrated in one only
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              cular, and in what matter, and under what Figure pleaſeth them,
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              namely, in a Board and in a Ball of Ebony, that this put in the
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              water, deſcends to the Bottom, and that ſtays atop to ſwim:
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              and the Matter being the ſame, and the two Bodies differing in
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              thing but in Figure, they affirm, that they have with all perſpicuity
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              demonſtrated and ſenſibly manifeſted what they undertook; and
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              laſtly, that they have obtained their intent. </s>
              <s>Nevertheleſs, I believe,
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              and thinke, I can demonſtrate, that that ſame Experiment proveth
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              nothing againſt my Concluſion.</s>
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              <s>And firſt, it is falſe, that the Ball deſcends, and the Board not:
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              for the Board ſhall alſo deſcend, if you do to both the Figures, as
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              the words of our Queſtion requireth; that is, if you put them both
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              into the
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              In
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              ments of
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              tion, the Solid
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              is to be put into,
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              not upon the
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              water.</s>
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              The Queſtion
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              of Natation
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              ted.</s>
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              The words were theſe. </s>
              <s>That the Antagoniſts having an opinion, that
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              the Figure would alter the Solid Bodies, in relation to the deſcending
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              or not deſcending, aſcending or not aſcending in the ſame
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              Medium,
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              as
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              v. </s>
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              in the ſame water, in ſuch ſort, that, for Example, a Solid that
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              being of a Sphericall Figure, ſhall deſcend to the Bottom, being reduced
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              into ſome other Figure, ſhall not deſcend: I holding the contrary, do
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              affirm, that a Corporeall Solid Body, which reduced into a Sphericall
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              gure, or any other, ſhall go to the Bottom, ſhall do the like under whatſoever
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              other Figure, &c.
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              <s>But to be in the water, implies to be placed in the water, and by </s>
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              Ariſtotles
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              own Definition of place, to be placed, importeth to be
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              vironed by the Superficies of the Ambient Body, therefore, then
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              ſhall the two Figures be in the water, when the Superficies of the
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              water, ſhall imbrace and inviron them: but when the Adverſaries
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              ſhew the Board of Ebony not deſcending to the Bottom, they put it
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              not into the water, but upon the water, where being by a certain
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              pediment (as by and by we will ſhew) retained, it is invironed, part
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              by water, and part by air, which thing is contrary to our agreement,
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              that was, that the Bodies ſhould be in the water, and not part in
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              water, and part in air.</s>
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