Upon Chapter the Fifth.
REMARK the Tenth.
THose words p. 30. l. 9. [That it is certain, water hath an intrinsecal Gravity of its own as it is an heavy body] these words are the most clearly un∣derstood. Whether they be true
Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More.
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- Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More.
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or false, from what I thought we were agreed on in the first and second part of my first Remark, That Gravity is nothing else but mobility, and Gravitation no∣thing else but motion or nisus ad motum. Gravity therefore be∣ing nothing else but mobility or a capacity of being moved down∣wards; this capacity is most cer∣tainly in it intrinsecally, and in∣deed in all other bodies besides. But if by Gravity should be un∣derstood such a principle in wa∣ter or any heavy body else, as by virtue whereof they would up∣on occasion move themselves downwards, That I make ac∣count not at all certain but ra••••er false.
REMARK the Eleventh.
Water so long as water, p. 34. l. 21. is ever in its fluid consi∣stency, and therefore sometimes
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does gravitate in its fluid consi∣stency, that is, has an actual mo∣tion or an actual nisus ad motum ad centrum Terrae. But that pres∣sure it seems to have, p. 35. l. 1. upon Quick-silver in a Vessel, is but ex accidenti towards the cen∣ter of the Earth it aims at the thin matter in the Torricellian Tube, or rather to reduce the matter to a due aequilibrium. Nor does it press upon the Quick-silver but with it, and vis unita fortior, as appears by the rising of the Mer∣cury in the Glass.