CHAP. V.
Of the kinds and properties of Motion.
a 1.1 MOtion appertaines to three Categories, to Quantity, ac∣cretion and diminution; to Quality, alteration; to Where, lecall motion.
Rest is a privation of motion in a body, when, where, and how it is apt for motion.
b 1.2 As all Magnitude is primarily, and perse, continuous and divisible into infinite, so is all motion, by reason of magnitude, and time it selfe. For whatsoever is not composed of indivisi∣bles, is divisible into infinite; but no continuous thing is compo∣sed of indivisible things, for it is quantitative, whereas indivisi∣bles having no extreams or parts, can neither be conjoyned by continuous nor contiguous motion.
c 1.3 Yet it followeth not, that if there be infinite magnitude, there can be no motion, for it is not infinite in act, but in power, as are likewise time and motion.
d 1.4 Neither is there any motion in the instant, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, for nothing is moved or resteth, but in time.
e 1.5 Motion therefore is divisible, as well in respect to the time wherein it is made, as in respect to the thing wherein it inheres; as both these are alwaies divisible, so may motion it selfe be di∣vided according to these.
f 1.6 Whatsoever is changed, assoon as it is changed, must neces∣sarily be in the (next) terme to which, for it leaveth the state or form in which it was, and assumeth that to which it tendeth: yet though in motion, there is a first motion of perfection, wherein we may truly say, the mutation is made, yet there is no first motion of inception.
g 1.7 Whatsoever is moved in any whole time, is necessarily mo∣ved in every part of that time.
h 1.8 All motion is finite, for it is in time, which is finite.
Whatsoever is thus proper to motion, is to be applyed also to rest and quiescence.