Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>Becauſe that the air it ſelf is not moved</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>It is requiſite then, that the projicient do confer
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              tion on the Air, with which it afterward moveth the project. </s>
              <s>But
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              if ſuch a motion cannot be impreſſed [
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              i. </s>
              <s>e. </s>
              <s>imparted
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              ] it being im­
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              poſſible to make an accident paſſe out of one ſubject into another,
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              how can it paſſe from the arm into the Air? </s>
              <s>Will you ſay that the
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              Air is not a ſubject different from the arm?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>To this it is anſwered that the Air, in regard it is
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              ther heavy nor light in its own Region, is diſpoſed with facility to
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              receive every impulſe, and alſo to retain the ſame.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>But if thoſe
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              penduli
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              even now named, did prove
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              unto us, that the moveable, the leſſe it had of gravity, the leſſe
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              apt it was to conſerve its motion, how can it be that the Air
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              which in the Air hath no gravity at all, doth of it ſelf alone
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              tain the motion acquired? </s>
              <s>I believe, and know that you by this
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              time are of the ſame opinion, that the arm doth not ſooner
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              turn to reſt, than doth the circumambient Air. </s>
              <s>Let's go into the
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              Chamber, and with a towel let us agitate the Air as much as we
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              can, and then holding the cloth ſtill, let a little candle be
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              brought, that was lighted in the next room, or in the ſame place
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              let a leaf of beaten Gold be left at liberty to flie any wav, and you
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              ſhall by the calm vagation of them be aſſured that the Air is
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              diately reduced to tranquilty. </s>
              <s>I could alledg many other
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              ments to the ſame purpoſe, but if one of theſe ſhould not
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              fice, I ſhould think your folly altogether incurable.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>When an arrow is ſhot againſt the Wind, how
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              ble a thing is it, that that ſame ſmall filament of air, impelled by
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              the bow-ſtring, ſhould in deſpite of fate go along with the arrow?
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              </s>
              <s>But I would willingly know another particular of
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              Ariſtotle,
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              to
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              which I intreat
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              Simplicius
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              would vouchſafe me an anſwer. </s>
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              poſing that with the ſame Bow there were ſhot two arrows, one
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              juſt after the uſual manner, and the other ſide-wayes, placing it
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              long-wayes upon the Bow-ſtring, and then letting it flie, I would
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              know which of them would go fartheſt. </s>
              <s>Favour me, I pray you
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              with an anſwer, though the queſtion may ſeem to you rather
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              ridiculous than otherwiſe; and excuſe me, for that I, who am, as
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              you ſee, rather blockiſh, than not, can reach no higher with my
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              ſpeculative faculty.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I have never ſeen an arrow ſhot in that manner, yet
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              nevertheleſſe I believe, that it would not flie ſide-long, the
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              twentieth part of the ſpace that it goeth end-wayes.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And for that I am of the ſame opinion, hence it is, that
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              I have a doubt riſen in me, whether
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              Aristotle
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              doth not contradict
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              experience. </s>
              <s>For as to experience, if I lay two arrows upon this
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              Table, in a time when a ſtrong Wind bloweth, one towards </s>
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