Galilei, Galileo, Discourse concerning the natation of bodies, 1663
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              and none light: For that the ſame would befall the Fire and Air,
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              if put in the Bottom of the water. </s>
              <s>And, howbeit,
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              Ariſtotle
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              grants
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              a Pulſion in the Elements, by which the Earth is reduced into a
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              ricall Figure, yet nevertheleſs, in his judgement, it is not ſuch that it
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              can remove grave Bodies from their naturall places, but rather, that
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              it ſend them toward the Centre, to which (as he ſomewhat obſcurely
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              continues to ſay,) the water principally moves, if it in the interim
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              meet not with ſomething that reſiſts it, and, by its Gravity, thruſts
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              it out of its place: in which caſe, if it cannot directly, yet at leaſt
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              as well as it can, it tends to the Centre: but it happens, that light
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              Bodies by ſuch Impulſion, do all aſcend upward: but this properly
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              they have by nature, as alſo, that other of ſwimming. </s>
              <s>He concludes,
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              laſtly, that he concurs with
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              Archimedes
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              in his Concluſions; but not
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              in the Cauſes, which he would referre to the facile and difficult
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              ration of the
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              Medium,
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              and to the predominance of the Elements, ſo
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              that when the Moveable ſuperates the power of the
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              Medium
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              ; as for
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              example, Lead doth the Continuity of water, it ſhall move thorow it,
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              elſe not.</s>
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              The
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              Ancients
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              denved
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              Aoſolute
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              Levity.</s>
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              The cauſes of
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              Natation &
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              merſion,
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              ing to the
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              pateticks.</s>
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              <s>This is all that I have been able to collect, as produced againſt
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              Archimedes
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              by
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              Signor Buonamico
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              : who hath not well obſerved the
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              Principles and Suppoſitions of
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              Archimedes
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              ; which yet muſt be
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              falſe, if the Doctrine be falſe, which depends upon them; but is
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              contented to alledge therein ſome Inconveniences, and ſome
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              nances to the Doctrine and Opinion of
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              Ariſtotle.
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              In anſwer to which
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              Objections, I ſay, firſt, That the being of
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              Archimedes
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              Doctrine,
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              ply different from the Doctrine of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              ought not to move any
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              to ſuſpect it, there being no cauſe, why the Authority of this ſhould
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              be preferred to the Authority of the other: but, becauſe, where the
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              decrees of Nature are indifferently expoſed to the intellectuall eyes of
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              each, the Authority of the one and the other, loſeth all
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              neſs of Perſwaſion, the abſolute power reſiding in Reaſon; therefore
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              I paſs to that which he alledgeth in the ſecond place, as an abſurd
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              ſequent of the Doctrine of
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              Archimedes,
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              namely, That water ſhould
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              be more grave than Earth. </s>
              <s>But I really find not, that ever
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              medes
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              ſaid ſuch a thing, or that it can be rationally deduced from his
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              Concluſions: and if that were manifeſt unto me, I verily believe, I
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              ſhould renounce his Doctrine, as moſt erroneous. </s>
              <s>Perhapsthis
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              ction of
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              Buonamico,
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              is founded upon that which he citeth of the
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              ſſel, which ſwims as long as its voyd of water, but once full it ſinks to
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              the Bottom, and underſtanding it of a Veſſel of Earth, he infers againſt
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              Archimedes
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              thus: Thou ſayſt that the Solids which ſwim, are leſs grave
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              than water: this Veſſell ſwimmeth: therefore, this Veſſell is leſſe grave
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              than water. </s>
              <s>If this be the Illation. </s>
              <s>I eaſily anſwer, granting that this
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              Veſſell is leſſe grave than water, and denying the other conſequence, </s>
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