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After having shown that water and air are weighing where they are and exert gravity and that there is no attraction in nature, the nature and actual cause of their fluidity can be discussed.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). On the Nature and Cause of Fluidity. 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_7
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