The Impetus of a Percussion Cannot Be Measured by the Simple Energy of Gravity
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased I had finished this book when I fell on the text in which the famous Gassendi refutes the assertion of Peter Cazreus…
On the Natural Motive Faculty of Gravity
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased After having presented the general theorems which are useful to investigate the composition of the movement of heavy bodies and its causes,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
