There Is No Positive Lightness in the Nature of Things
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Hitherto we considered the gravity, not of all fluid bodies, but only of water, quicksilver and others similar the ponderousness of which…
Why Movements of Heavy Bodies Are Made Unequal by Full Fluid Environments
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased After having shown that all heavy bodies by their nature are equally rapid, it remains to find out how and why heavy…
On the Moments of Consistent and Fluid Heavy Bodies Floating in Fluids
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Archimedes discussed very precisely and famously bodies sitting in liquid. Later, by another approach, Galileo and Stevin demonstrated the same point, since…
On the Natural Velocity of Heavy Bodies in Equal Times
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased In any movement inside a fluid, a resistance is exerted. Therefore, the natural degree of impetus which should carry the mobile is…
On the Structure, the Gravity, the Equilibrium and the Elastic Force of Air
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Above it was shown more than enough that water is in its proper position and remains together by its gravity. Moreover, we…
On the Mutual Binding of Floating Corpuscles and on Their Shunning
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased Almost 32 years ago, I wanted to find out whether iron wires floating on water placed at different inclinations in relation to…
Investigation of the Cause of the Spontaneous Elevation of Small Particles of Water in the Air Above the Surface of the Water
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased We elegantly confirmed above (by altering and deforming a spherical shape) the truth of the theory of Archimedes according to whom all…
Every Fluid Body Among Those Which Rest on the Surface of the Earth is Heavy and Exerts the Force of Its Gravity, Even When Present and Quiescent in Its due Place, in All the Fluid of Its Kind
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased We supposed with Archimedes that water and all the other fluid bodies surrounding the earth exert a compression towards the centre of…
On the Necessity of Vacuum
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased It seems clear to me that Aristotle said that physics must deal with vacuum not only because it is nice to know…
There Are Movements of Sublunary Bodies in a Fluid Environment, Which Nobody Dealt with so Far
(1) Mathematics in Naples, Naples, Italy Deceased It is obvious that movements of sublunary bodies must occur in a space which must not be filled and occupied by hard,…
