48 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



ullius sunt pretii. Quippe hoc sibi volunt ; si corpus, 

 alias lion nmtatuin, loco tanien moveatur, hoc lationcm 

 esse ; si, inanciite et loco et specie, qualitate mutetur, 

 hoc alterationem esse ; si vero ex ilia niutatione moles 

 ipsa, et quantitas corporis non eadem maneat, hoc auc/- 

 mentationis et diminutionis niotuin esse ; si eatenus 

 niutentur, ut speciem ii)sani et substantiam inutent, et 

 in alia migrent, hoc generationem et corruptionem esse. 

 At ista mere popularia sunt, et nullo modo in natnrani 

 penetrant ; sunt(jue iiiensiira 1 et ]&amp;gt;eriocli tantuin, non 

 species iiiotus. Inniiunt eniin illucl, hucusque, et non, 

 tjuoiiuHlo, vel e.r (/no J ohfe. Neque eniiu dc&amp;gt; corpornin 

 appetitu, ant de partiuin eoruiu processu, aliquid sig- 

 nih cant ; sed tantuin quuin inotus ille rein aliter ac 

 priiis, crasso modo, sensni exhibeat, iude divisioneni 

 snani auspicantur. Etiani quiiiu de causis inotuum 

 aliquid significare volunt, atque divisioneni ex illis 

 instituere, differential!! niotus naturalis et violenti, 

 maxima cum socordia, introducing&quot; ; qua,- et ipsa 0111- 

 nino ex notione vulgari est ; cum omnis niotus violen- 

 tus ctiam naturalis revera sit, scilicet cum externum 

 efficiens natnrani alio niodo in opere ponet, quam quo 

 prius. 



At hisce omissis; si quis (exempli gratia) observave- 

 rit, inesse corporibus appotitum contactus 23 ad inviceni, 



/mcocris-, ciAXotaxm, ital rj Kara rimov Motion&quot; is. 



/lero^oXr;. For Bacon s use of Motus - 3 Three subjects touched on: 



see Bk. II. 48. (i) a dim notion of Attraction, based 



^ This division of Motion is (as on the old opinion as to Nature s 



Bacon says) untenable. The real &quot; abhorrence of a Vacuum,&quot; an 



simplicity of the Laws of Motion opinion universally held in Bacon s 



as we now know them was hidden days, and assumed by Galileo as a 



from his eyes ; as we may see by principle in his physics. Torricelli by 



his confused divisions in II. 48, means of the Barometer first shook 



where (under Motus libertatis, No. men s faith in it. SeeHerschel sDis- 



3) he tries to explain what that course on Nat. Phil. 244 246. Pas- 



which the ancients called &quot; Violent cal has the honour of having clearly 



