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For, feeing that a Plate of Iron chat is Large, and very Thin, will fwim upon the water •, but if you reduce it into a round folid form, it links prcfently: is it not evident, that this proceeds meerly from the Figure ? What manner of Spirit muft he be of, that dares affirm the contrary j unlefs it be one that means to fay, however, as Pf/rio faics; whofe i\n- fwer you have in thefe words. Kefpondeo^ figuran ejfe Cottfrincipum in motulocdi^ & Oferationibm qu^per hunc motum fiunt ; ut [unt varia divifiones continni per dolahrant^ per ntalleum^ per afciam^ per ferram s non vero in Operationihm qu£ fiunt per alter ationem. 1 cantioc but wonder, that this Acute Jefuite, who hath (hew- ed himfelf in other things^ a moft Learned, and Sound Philo(opher» fo that he conies not (hort of any in the whole fociety, (hould fo grofl? offend here, againft thofe very Philofophical Maxinie^, which himfelf hath laid down. For, where he grants, that Figure is a Co-principle in Local Moti- on, and in the Operations which this Motion pro- duccth ; but not in thofe which are caufed by Alte- ration; he concludes againft that, which himfelf had before laid down \ feeing that, according to the common Confentof all Philofophers,heac is caufed by Vlotion, but heat is a kind of Alteration : There- foicthe Figure is, of it felf, a Co-Principle in cheo- pcratioiii which are caufed by Alteration.
Again, when he grants to Cajetan^ that a Large piece of Iron may perhaps fwim upon the water , yec he faics, that it is not by reafon of the Figure, but of the Quantity : thefe are his v^ords. Sed ejio^ fiat ^ erit^ non ratione ^igura fed ratione ^antitatis. Well, but of it felf, and in found Philofophr-, ^^uantita^ nonel}a^iviti Seethenwhat the con fequei ice muft jbe. And in the end, wh
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ins the /-/gwrf, therefore that makes a large piece of Iron to fwini upon the Water , T>elrio anfwers, that this Figure IS only accidental: fjr, faith he, let this lirge, thin piece of Iron be reduced into fome o- ther Figure, either Circular, Square, or ^wt angled, it will do the fame : that is to fajr, it will ftill fwim upon tre water : therefore the figure operates not, but by accident; But here Belin deceives himfelfe : forC^zjft^w'ipurpofe is not to oppofe one flat figure, or, as the Mathematicians fpeak, hxTlam^ againft another flat figure, either Square^ or Circular; but a plaine, flat Figure, againft a folid one. For a flat Figure, whether it be Square, Circular, Oftogonal, orof what fadiion foe ver it be, will do that, which the fa rue figure, ifitbefolid, will not do: which is moft true ; feeing that a piece of Iron that is fquare, and thick wirhall, iinkes prcfently to the bottom of the water ; which the fame piece of Iron would not do, were it fquare, and very tl\in ; it is thereforea moft undeniable Maxime, that Figure hath fome po- wer to Operate.
Other Obieftions which are made againft the po- wer of thcfc Image?, are fet down, and refuted by Galeottus^VeVonru^apromifccz^.tht moft weighty of which, arethefe following.
In thtfe Images which are ingraved on Gold, for file Cure of the ''tonr, and the pain in the Rein:-', the Gold of Its own Nature cannot work this Cure i much Icfs then can the Image; which being without life^ cannot by any means alter the Gold, and change it into another Nature. Bciides,in the Image there is found neither aftion, norpallion: againjthe Gold of it felfe, whether it be figured, or not, is ftill ofthefame5/?cr/>^ ; andconfequently the beams of theStuis muft ahvayeswork upcii it, after one and
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