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

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              <s>THEOREME
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              The heavieſt
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              Bodies may
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              ſwimme.</s>
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              All Matters, how heavy ſoever, even to Gold it ſelf,
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              heavieſt of all Bodies, known by us, may float upon
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              the Water.
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              <s>Becauſe its Gravity being conſidered to be almoſt twenty times
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              greater than that of the water, and, moreover, the greateſt Alti­
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              tude that the Rampart of water can be extended to, without break
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              ing the Contiguity of the Air, adherent to the Surface of the Solid,
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              that is put upon the water being predetermined, if we ſhould make
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              a Plate of Gold ſo thin, that it exceeds not the nineteenth part ofthe
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              Altitude of the ſaid Rampart, this put lightly upon the water ſhall
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              reſt, without going to the bottom: and if Ebony ſhall chance to be
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              in ſeſquiſeptimall proportion more grave than the water, the greateſt
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              thickneſs that can be allowed to a Board of Ebony, ſo that it may be
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              able to ſtay above water without ſinking, would be ſeaven times
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              more than the height of the Rampart Tinn,
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              v. </s>
              <s>gr.
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              eight times
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              grave than water, ſhall ſwimm as oft as the thickneſs of its Plate,</s>
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              exceeds not the 7th part of the Altitude of the Rampart.</s>
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              He elſewhere
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              cites this as a
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              Propoſition,
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              fore I make it of
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              that number.
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              <s>And here I will not omit to note, as a ſecond Corrollary dependent
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              upon the things demonſtrated, that,</s>
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              <s>THEOREME
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              Natation and
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              Submerſion,
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              lected from the
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              thickneſs,
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              ding the length
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              and breadth of
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              Plates.</s>
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              The Expanſion of Figure not only is not the Cauſe of
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              Natation of thoſe grave Bodies, which
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              do ſubmerge, but alſo the determining what be
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              Boards of Ebony, or Plates of Iron or Gold that
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              ſwimme, depends not on it, rather that ſame
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              tion is to be collected from the only thickneſs of
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              Figures of Ebony or Gold, wholly excluding the
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              ſideration of length and breadth, as having no way
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              any ſhare in this Effect.
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              <s>It hath already been manifeſted, that the only cauſe of the
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              tion of the ſaid Plates, is the reduction of them to be leſs grave
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              than the water, by means of the connexion of that Air, which
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              ſcendeth together with them, and poſſeſſeth place in the water;
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              which place ſo occupyed, if before the circumfuſed water diffuſeth
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              it ſelf to fill it, it be capable of as much water, as ſhall weigh equall
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              with the Plate, the Plate ſhall remain ſuſpended, and ſinke
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              farther.</s>
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