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issues the work in due time, and is infinitely suchanics perior to the aforesaid contemplation or science.

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Mechanics are the paradise of scientific mathematics, because with them we arrive at the fruits of mathematics.

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Experience is indispensable for the making of any instrument.

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Proportion is not only to be found in figures and measurements, but also in sound, weight, time and position, and in whatever power which exists.

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The power of the projecting force increases in proportion as the object projected is smaller; the acceleration of the motion increases to infinity proportionately to this diminution. It would follow that an atom would be almost as rapid as the imagination or the eye, which in a moment attains to the height of the stars, and consequently its voyage would be infinite, because the thing which can be infinitely diminished would have an infinite velocity and would travel on an infinite course (because every continuous quantity is divisible to infinity). And this opinion is con-

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