&longs;hall be an ea&longs;ie task; for I reply, that the moveable pa&longs;&longs;eth by <lb/>
the afore&longs;aid degrees, but the pa&longs;&longs;age is made without &longs;taying in </s>

<s><arrow.to.target n="marg42"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
any of them; &longs;o that the pa&longs;&longs;age requiring but one &longs;ole in&longs;tant <lb/>
of time, and every &longs;mall time containing infinite in&longs;tants, we &longs;hall <lb/>
not want enough of them to a&longs;&longs;ign its own to each of the infinite <lb/>
degrees of tardity; although the time were never &longs;o &longs;hort.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg42"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The moveable de <lb/>
parting from re&longs;v <lb/>
pa&longs;&longs;eth thorow all <lb/>
degrees of velocity <lb/>
without &longs;taying in <lb/>
any.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>Hitherto I apprehend you; neverthele&longs;s it is very much <lb/>
that that Ball &longs;hot from a Cannon (for &longs;uch I conceive the ca <lb/>
dent moveable) which yet we &longs;ee to fall with &longs;uch a precipice, <lb/>
that in le&longs;s than ten pul&longs;es it will pa&longs;s two hundred yards of al <lb/>
titude; &longs;hould in its motion be found conjoyned with &longs;o &longs;mall a <lb/>
degree of velocity, that, &longs;hould it have continued to have moved <lb/>
at that rate without farther acceleration, it would not have pa&longs;t <lb/>
the &longs;ame in a day.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>You may &longs;ay, nor yet in a year, nor in ten, no nor in a <lb/>
thou&longs;and; as I will endeavour to &longs;hew you, and al&longs;o happily with <lb/>
out your contradiction, to &longs;ome &longs;ufficiently &longs;imple que&longs;tions that <lb/>
I will propound to you. </s><s>Therefore tell me if you make any que <lb/>
&longs;tion of granting that, that that ball in de&longs;cending goeth increa <lb/>
&longs;ing its <emph type="italics"/>impetus<emph.end type="italics"/> and velocity.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>I am mo&longs;t certain it doth.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>And if I &longs;hould &longs;ay that the <emph type="italics"/>impetus<emph.end type="italics"/> acquired in any <lb/>
place of its motion, is &longs;o much, that it would &longs;uffice to re-carry <lb/>
it to that place from which it came, would you grant it?</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>I &longs;hould con&longs;ent to it without contradiction, provided al <lb/>
waies, that it might imploy without impediment its whole <emph type="italics"/>impetus<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
in that &longs;ole work of re-conducting it &longs;elf, or another equal toit, to <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg43"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
that &longs;elf-&longs;ame height as it would do, in ca&longs;e the Earth were bored <lb/>
thorow the centre, and the Bullet fell a thou&longs;and yards from the <lb/>
&longs;aid centre, for I verily believe it would pa&longs;s beyond the centre, <lb/>
a&longs;cending as much as it had de&longs;cended; and this I &longs;ee plainly in <lb/>
the experiment of a plummet hanging at a line, which removed <lb/>
from the perpendicular, which is its &longs;tate of re&longs;t, and afterwards <lb/>
let go, falleth towards the &longs;aid perpendicular, and goes as far be <lb/>
yond it; or onely &longs;o much le&longs;s, as the oppo&longs;ition of the air, and <lb/>
line, or other accidents have hindred it. </s><s>The like I &longs;ee in the wa <lb/>
ter, which de&longs;cending thorow a pipe, re-mounts as much as it had <lb/>
de&longs;cended.</s>

<s><margin.target id="marg43"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The ponderous mo <lb/>
ver de&longs;cending ac <lb/>
quireth<emph.end type="italics"/> impetus <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>&longs;ufficient to re <lb/>
carry it to the like <lb/>
height.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>You argue very well. </s><s>And for that I know you will not <lb/>
&longs;cruple to grant that the acqui&longs;t of the <emph type="italics"/>impetus<emph.end type="italics"/> is by means of the <lb/>
receding from the term whence the moveable departed, and its ap <lb/>
proach to the centre, whither its motion tendeth; will you &longs;tick <lb/>
to yeeld, that two equal moveables, though de&longs;cending by divers <lb/>
lines, without any impediment, acquire equal <emph type="italics"/>impetus,<emph.end type="italics"/> provided <lb/>
that the approaches to the centre be equal?</s>