| (22) [XII]. Ad destructionem igitur primi membri consequentis dico quod aquam esse ecentricam est impossibile. Quod sic demonstro: Si aqua esset ecentrica, tria impossibilia sequerentur; quorum primum est quod aqua esset naturaliter mobilis sursum et deorsum; secundum est quod aqua non moveretur deorsum per eandem lineam cum terra; tertium est quod gravitas equivoce predicaretur de ipsis; que omnia non tantum falsa sed impossibilia esse videntur.
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| (22) For the refutation of the first member of the consequent, I say that it is impossible for water to be excentric; which I demonstrate thus: Were water excentric, three impossibilities would follow, the first of which is, that water would naturally move both up and down; the second is, that water would not drop along the same line as earth; the third is, that gravity would be predicated in a different sense of each of them. All which seem to be not only false but impossible. |
