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After having shown that all heavy bodies by their nature are equally rapid, it remains to find out how and why heavy bodies which move in fluid environments have unequal velocities. We will attempt at supplying as best as we can these physical and mechanical explanations which hitherto were missing.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). Why Movements of Heavy Bodies Are Made Unequal by Full Fluid Environments. In: Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08536-4_11
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