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In the previous chapters we supposed that all solid bodies which are considered as hard and rigid are made of countless elastic particles some of which play the role of a lever, others the role of a wedge, that some are extended like sheets, others are bent like rings. They are not connected and bound together everywhere but comprise countless pores and cavities thanks to which they can be squeezed or bent and thus resile like a machine. This results in compression and immediately afterwards dilatation.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). More Accurate Investigation of the Cause of Vibration. 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_31
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