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| (39) [XVII]. Sed ista ratio non videtur demonstrare, quia propositio maior principalis sillogismi non videtur habere necessitatem. Dicebatur enim 'gravissimum corpus equaliter undique ac potissime petit centrum'; quod non videtur esse necessarium; quia, licet terra sit gravissimum corpus comparatum ad alia corpora, comparatum tamen in se, secundum suas partes, potest esse gravissimum et non gravissimum, quia potest esse gravior terra ex una parte quam ex altera. | (39) But this argument does not appear to be conclusive, because the major of the main syllogism does not itself appear to be necessarily true. For it was urged, 'that the heaviest body seeks the centre equally from every direction, and most potently,' which does not seem to be necessary; for though earth is the heaviest body compared to other bodies, yet compared to itself, to wit in its several parts, it may be both the heaviest and not the heaviest; for there may be heavier earth on the one side than on the other. |