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A44236 Observations touching the principles of natural motions, and especially touching rarefaction & condensation together with a reply to certain remarks touching the gravitation of fluids / by the author of Difficiles nugae. Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676. 1677 (1677) Wing H252; ESTC R8786 90,509 299

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Expressions that are not polished according to Grammatical or Scholastick Niceties or Modes that I may be excused herein and that the Reader will look to the Scope and Drift and mark at what I aim and not cavil at bare Terms and Expressions so long as the thing they design be laid open This is an unhappiness that too often befals men that are inquisitive after Truth that their Readers or Opponents miss the scope of the Writer and fall upon Criticismes about Words and Forms of Expressions Words are but Signs of Conceptions and Thoughts and as I have elsewhere said they perform their Office well enough when they render our Thoughts intelligible 3. That he will be content to suspend his Censure upon Clauses or Sentences apart till he hath perused all It is not possible especially in Discourses of this Nature to speak or write all at once Some things that are but shortly or obscurely delivered or perchance omitted in one Sentence Page or Paragraph may be supplied or explained in another The CONTENTS CHap. 1. Concerning Motion and its Original Pag. 1 Chap. 2. A farther Disquisition touching the immediate Cause of Motion Pag. 7 Chap. 3. Concerning some other more universal or common Causes assigned to Motions viz. Anima Mundi Spiritus Naturae Principia Hylarchica Pag. 25 Chap. 4. Touching Rarefaction and Condensation and their Kinds Pag. 36 Chap. 5. Concerning the Phaenomena of Rarefaction and Condensation apparent to Sense Pag. 49 Chap. 6. Concerning the various Solutions of Condensation and Rarefaction and first of that which is by supposed interspersed Vacuities Pag. 55 Chap. 7. Concerning the Second Solution of Rarefaction and Condensation and its insufficiency Pag. 67 Chap. 8. Further Considerations concerning the Deficiency of the Second Solution in relation to Rarefaction and Condensation and the Supplements that have been devised to enforce or supply it Pag. 77 Chap. 9. Touching the Third Supposition of the Method of Rarefaction and Condensation according to the Ancient Philosophy which seems to be the truest Pag. 87 Chap. 10. A further Consideration of Rarefaction and Condensation and of the Supposition of the Penetrability or Impenetrability of Bodies Material Substances Quantity Extension c. Pag. 108 ERRATA PAg. 39. l. 4. dele appearing p. 43. l. 10. r. it it makes spaces p. 63. l. 25. abstracted r. obstructed p. 64. l. 18. r. and with great ease if the supposition be true p. 65. l. 15. more r. mere p. 89. l. 20. Tube r. Cube p. 94. l. 23. dele actual p. 95. l. 13. cancelled r. cantelled p. 106. l. 7. r. passion or quality of p. 131. l. 21. r. in Condensation p. 189. l. 6. r. preponderation p. 192. l. 25. Ballance r. Bottom p. 204. l. 20. some r. sense p. 239. l. 24. r. preponderated p. 276. l. 17. r. foreign OBSERVATIONS Touching the Principles of Natural Motions and especially touching RAREFACTION and CONDENSATION CHAP. I. Concerning Motion and its Original AS an Introduction to what follows I shall briefly set down some Observations touching Motion of Created Material Beings for I shall not in this place meddle with those more Noble Beings of Angelical or Spiritual Natures nor the Humane Soul which is a Subject of another and higher nature and not to be measured by those ordinary Rules or Reasons that concern Bodies Matter and Material Natures We may generally find in all Material Beings the thing called Motion in some of one kind in some of another some more simple some more complexed and various some more conspicuous to sense as Local Motion some less conspicuous as Generation and Alteration some things are moved by others some things seem to have the Principle or Original of motion in themselves which communicates motion to the Subject wherein that Principle resides and also to other things by contact of their corporeity or virtue And therefore Aristotle somewhere as I remember calls motion or endeavours of it to be quasi vita quaedam quae omnibus inest quae Natura constant The primitive Principle or Cause of all Motion is the first Mover the great and glorious Lord of Nature from whom as being so all Motion is derived into created Beings 1. By way of causality those created Beings that seem to have the immediate Principle of Motions in themselves have that Principle from his Fiat and Institution And 2. By way of Concurrence and Concomitance There is a perpetual flux from that Fountain of Being that preserves and sustains those Principles of Motion which he at first lodged in created Beings according to their several ranks kinds and natures and instituted Durations and if this Concourse should withdraw it self but one moment all the Motion of created Beings would cease and expire Matter it self simply considered as such though it be susceptive of Motion as we daily see is not the immediate principle of Motion in those subjects that seem to be self-moving or primitive Movents of other things according to that Law of Nature instituted by the Soveraign Lord thereof And this seems apparent among other Reasons by these that follow 1. Because Matter in it self and simply considered seems to be meerly passive and receptive of active impressions from something else It is true one portion of Matter once set in Motion will by contact put another portion of Matter into Motion But we are not now upon the search of intermediate Instrumentals of Motion but upon the search of the Principles of such Motions which seem primitively and immediately to be elicited in any Physical Subject 2. Because Matter simply considered seems to be one kind of uniform Entity but diversified by its Forms Qualities and Modifications as Weight Colour Hardness Softness c. The Matter of a piece of Gold and of a piece of Wood abstractively considered seems to be the Materia prima of the Ancients and of the same nature and consequently if Matter simply considered were the immediate active principle of Motion the Motions of all things would be as simple and uniform as the Matter it self But we see by daily experience that there are Motions of several Subjects which have the immediate principle of their Motion in and from themselves or somewhat within them that obtains vicem Moventis and are various differing differently exerted and differently terminated from the Motions of other Bodies Therefore if there be any things in Nature that have their Principle of Motion in themselves we must find out if we can somewhat besides Matter that is the immediate root or spring of it It is true the great Master in Natural Philosophy Aristotle tells us that whatsoever is moved is moved by another which would make one suppose that he thought there were no immediate self-moving principle in those Beings we call Automata but only the first Mover and truly with respect to the Soveraign Cause of all things that every thing is moved by him that is unmoveable as I have before shewed cannot be questioned But that there are