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If the movement was the matter, it is clear of course that a huge material mass could be moved slowly by any small corpuscle impelling quickly, as was said. If the impulse which generates vibration was the matter, the impelled body could also move at the same velocity as the impeller. But to assert that a slowly impelling body can move a body more quickly seems absolutely impossible since no cause can produce an effect greater than itself.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). 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. 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_32
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