<emph type="italics"/>Cur plumbum in aere ligno tardius de&longs;cendit, in aqua lignam &longs;upernatai, <lb/>
plumbum vero mergitur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 214. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Error Themistij hac de re confutatur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 216. </s> </p>

<p type="head"> <s id="s.001909">Caput VIII.<lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Quomodo aer &longs;it in proprio loco grauis.<emph.end type="italics"/> 217. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ab aere violentus, &amp; naturalis motus iuuatur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 217. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Cur a principio violentus motus e&longs;t &longs;egnior.<emph.end type="italics"/> 218. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>In motu violento tres &longs;unt motus, vnus naturalis, duo violenti.<emph.end type="italics"/> 218. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>In syphonibus attracti aeris impetu aqua &longs;ur&longs;um rapitur:<emph.end type="italics"/> 219. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Aerem magis e&longs;&longs;e grauem, quam leuem experientia confirmatur:<emph.end type="italics"/> 219. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Frigiditas grauitatis cau&longs;a non e&longs;t.<emph.end type="italics"/> 220. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Grauitas, &amp; leuitas propter primas qualitates elementis non tribuun&shy;<lb/>
tur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 220. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Elementorum grauitates, &amp; leuitates inter &longs;e, &amp; &agrave; mixtorum grauitate, <lb/>
&amp; leuitate &longs;pecie differunt.<emph.end type="italics"/> 121. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Motus &agrave; grauitate factus ab eo motu &longs;pecie differt, qui &agrave; leuitate fit.<emph.end type="italics"/> 221. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Eiu&longs;dem elementi grauitas, &amp; leuitas &longs;pecie differt, cum est in proprio lo<lb/>
co, &amp; extra eumdem.<emph.end type="italics"/> 221. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Mixtorum grauitates, &amp; leuitates &longs;pecie differunt:<emph.end type="italics"/> 222. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Grauitas, &amp; leuitas non ex primis elementorum perualgatis qualitatibus, <lb/>
&longs;ed ex maiore, aut minore distantia &agrave; motu primi mobilis na&longs;citur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 222. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Prim&aelig; qualitates grauitatem, &amp; leuitatem non faciunt, &longs;ed iuuant.<emph.end type="italics"/> 223. </s> </p>

<p type="head"> <s id="s.001910">Caput IX.<lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Quare medicorum cucurbitula aquam, &amp; carnem non autem terram &longs;ur&longs;um <lb/>
trahant.<emph.end type="italics"/> 224. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Terra non vnam cum aqua &longs;uperficiem habet.<emph.end type="italics"/> 224. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Alexandro prim&aelig; omnium con&longs;en&longs;u tribuuntur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 225. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Frigidum conden&longs;at.<emph.end type="italics"/> 225. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Themi&longs;tius Alexandrum carpit.<emph.end type="italics"/> 225. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Calidum attrahit.<emph.end type="italics"/> 223. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Idem corpus numero ab eodem corpore numero &longs;imul non trahitur, &amp; non <lb/>
pellitur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 226. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Auerroes Alexandrum refellit.<emph.end type="italics"/> 226. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Nullum corpus fluidum fluit, ni&longs;i aliud fluidum corpus con&longs;equa&shy;<lb/>
tur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 226. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>A vacuo natura abhorret.<emph.end type="italics"/> 226. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Clepsydr&aelig; non ni&longs;i aperto &longs;uperius existente ore implentur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 226. </s> </p>

<p type="head"> <s id="s.001911">Caput X.<lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Quare pulueres per medium aerem volitant, maiora ver&ograve; corpora de&longs;cen&shy;<lb/>
dunt.<emph.end type="italics"/> 228. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Mollia, &amp; parus corpora facile diuiduntur.<emph.end type="italics"/> 229.