How the Impetus Is Weakened and Extinguished in Projectiles
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Everybody perceives that the extinction and death of a movement is immobility, when the migration of some body from one place to…
Examination of the Question 19 in the Mechanics of Aristotle
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Here by the way the opinion of Aristotle on the cause of the energy of percussion presented in his Mechanics can be…
The Smallest Motive Force of Any Body, by a Slow Movement, Can Impress and Increase in a Huge Body a Velocity Greater than That at Which the Impeller Moved
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased If the movement was the matter, it is clear of course that a huge material mass could be moved slowly by any…
More Accurate Investigation of the Cause of Vibration
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased In the previous chapters we supposed that all solid bodies which are considered as hard and rigid are made of countless elastic…
On Shaking of Bodies
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased A very frequent reaction to percussion is vibration and shaking which occur in bodies. Somewhere else we will deal with quivering in…
The Energy of Percussion Is Greater than the Compressive Force of Any Finite Heavy Body
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased The experiment described above did not lead us to the quest of the truth because of some circumstances not yet discovered. Therefore,…
Explanation of the Problem and Enquiry on the Actual Causes of This Wonderful Effect
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased In the experiment thus described, something can be found for the infinity of the virtue of percussion as will be shown in…
On the Comparison Between the Energy of Percussion and the Compressive Force of Gravity
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased What was said so far is not only pleasant to know but also very useful to solve the wonderful problem concerning the…
All Solid Bodies Are Not Absolutely Hard but They Are Either Fluent or Soft or Elastic
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased The wonderful qualities of percussion, which must be explained and demonstrated at the end, require the structure of solid bodies to be…
Digression on the Reason Why a Magnet Attracts Iron
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased From the theory thus presented on why and how heavy bodies fall, not only a new but perhaps an appropriate explanation of…
