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

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              Place defined
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              according to
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              Ariſtotle.
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              The which is again made manifest, by the queſtions being put as well
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              about the things which go to the Bottom, as thoſe which ariſe from the
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              Bottom to ſwimme, and who ſees not that things placed in the Bottom,
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              muſt have water about them.
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              <s>It is now to be noted, that the Board of Ebany and the Ball, put
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              into
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              the water, both ſink, but the Ball more ſwiftly, and the Board
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              more ſlowly; and ſlower and ſlower, according as it ſhall be more
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              broad and thin, and of this Tardity the breadth of the Figure is the
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              true Cauſe: But theſe broad Boards that ſlowly deſcend, are the
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              ſame, that being put lightly upon the water, do ſwimm: Therefore,
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              if that were true which the Adverſaries affirm, the ſame numerical
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              Figure, would in the ſame numericall water, cauſe one while Reſt, and
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              another while Tardity of Motion, which is impoſſible: for every
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              ticular Figure which deſcends to the Bottom, hath of neceſſity its own
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              determinate Tardity and ſlowneſs, proper and naturall unto it,
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              ding to which it moveth, ſo that every other Tardity, greater or leſſer
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              is improper to its nature: if, therefore, a Board, as ſuppoſe of a foot
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              ſquare, deſcendeth naturally with ſix degrees of Tardity, it is
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              ble, that it ſhould deſcend with ten or twenty, unleſs ſome new
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              diment do arreſt it. </s>
              <s>Much leſs can it, by reaſon of the ſame Figure
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              reſt, and wholly ceaſe to move; but it is neceſſary, that when ever it
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              reſteth, there do ſome greater impediment intervene than the breadth
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              of the Figure. </s>
              <s>Therefore, it muſt be ſomewhat elſe, and not the
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              gure, that ſtayeth the Board of Ebany above water, of which Eigure
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              the only Effect is the retardment of the Motion, according to which
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              it deſcendeth more ſlowly than the Ball. </s>
              <s>Let it be confeſſed,
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              fore, rationally diſcourſing, that the true and ſole Cauſe of the Ebanys
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              going to the Bottom, is the exceſs of its Gravity above the Gravity of
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              the water: and the Cauſe of the greater or leſs Tardity, the breadth
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              of this Figure, or the contractedneſs of that: but of its Reſt, it can
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              by no means be allowed, that the quallity of the Figure, is the Cauſe
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              thereof: aſwell, becauſe, making the Tardity greater, according as
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              the Figure more dilateth, there cannot be ſo immenſe a Dilatation, to
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              which there may not be found a correſpondent immence Tardity.
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              <s>without reduſing it to Nullity of Motion; as, becauſe the Figures
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              produced by the Antagoniſts for effecters of Reſt, are the ſelf ſame
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              that do alſo go to the
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              The
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              on of the
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              riment in the
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              Ebany.</s>
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              Every perticular
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              Figure hath its
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              own peculiat
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              Tardity.</s>
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              * The Figure &
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              Reſiſtance of
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              the Medium
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              gainſt Diviſion,
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              have nothing to
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              do with the
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              fect of Natation
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              or Submerſion,
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              by an
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              ment in
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              nut tree,</s>
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              <s>I will not omit another reaſon, founded alſo upon Experience, and
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              if I deceive not my ſelf, manifeſtly concluding, how that the
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              ducton of the breadth or amplitude of Figure, and the Reſiſtance of
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              the water againſt penetration, have nothing to do in the Effect of
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              ſcending, or aſcending, or reſting in the water. ^{*}Take a piece of wood
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              or other Matter, of which a Ball aſcends from the Bottom of the water </s>
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