Theater of Machines, Part 1

purpose, will be strong enough to raise the corpus or sphere D much faster upwards, if such a counterweight were hung on the other little arm at point F.

Furthermore, it is also to be noted that exactly the same thing, which we have thus stipulated at this place concerning both bodies or these both spheres, which the one is in itself, that is, simpliciter simply/by itself, stronger or more powerful than the other, that we have also wished to stipulate the same in the same manner concerning two bodies which are also just as such by themselves, or simpliciter, equal to one another in their power, but through the power of position placement, that is, according to how one is hung or attached against the other on the arms of such a balance, surpass one another. As for an example, I set it that if the two corpora A and D are hung on the arm AB of the balance ABC, which are equal to each other by themselves or simpliciter in their power, that is, one as heavy as the other, according to the hanging, as the one at point A, the other at point D, as the provided figure clearly shows. And even if such both bodies are equal to each other by themselves or simpliciter in power, nevertheless the corpus A in such position (according to the teaching and demonstration of the 13th Definition or Rule of Interpretation) will be held as heavier than the corpus D, as such evident experience will sufficiently show. For from this, it cannot be demonstrated otherwise, or the cause sought, other than that the corpus A is raised at point E, and the other corpus D at point G. And if both such bodies were then left to go down by themselves, and to travel under themselves, then I say that the corpus A will fall down much faster than the corpus D, and conversely, once one and the other have gone down, as deep

The fourth figure of the copperplate N. I.