Two treatises : in the one of which, the nature of bodies : in the other, the nature of mans soule, is looked into : in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules (1645)
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665 · London : Printed for Iohn Williams ... · leaf 188
be (after the balls paflage throvgh the linen}in a greater proportion tothe velocity w* it hath the other way where it findeth refiftance,then it wasbefore.. And therefore the ball will in leffe time arrive to its period on the one fidethen on the other: and confequently, it will lean cowards that… … muft imagine that C E, is the cloth or pafiable fuperficies which Monfieur Des Cartes putteth ; and B L the line it would go in, if chere were no refiftance. Next we mutt feck the perpendicy- lar, which according to our explication,'s A C : for that falleth from A the illuminant, perpendicularly…
Matter · Atomism · Immortality · Soul
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