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Everybody perceives that the extinction and death of a movement is immobility, when the migration of some body from one place to another ceases and the body remains in the same position in the world space. Nature also shows that weakening and softening of a movement, which is called slowing down [deceleration], can only occur by some mixture and involvement of immobility so that the movement in which more immobility is involved is usually considered as slower. This being established, it seems likely enough and plausible that these causes which could produce immobility and stability in a body can extinguish and stop the movement of this body. Seemingly, this can most properly result from bodies provided with absolute immobility.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). How the Impetus Is Weakened and Extinguished in Projectiles. In: Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08497-8_16
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