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<p> to use to be a false idea of <lb/> theirs, the more so, when <lb/> upon a Stricter Enquiry <lb/> I found they neither sailed<lb/> nor rowed but receiving<lb/> the whole of their motion — <lb/> from the Current itself, and <lb/> an Oar at the Head, & at the <lb/> Stern to guide them.</p> | |||
<p> I reasoned with myself <lb/> as I had been accustomed<lb/> in order to find the reason <lb/> of other People & of Authors<lb/> on the Subject — any Body, <lb/> floating in a running water, <lb/> when first set off receives<lb/> an Impulse from the Water <lb/> <sic>till</sic> having acquired the <lb/> same Velocity with the Current<lb/> itself, is no more struck <lb/> by it, but becomes as it <lb/> were, a Part of the Sea <gap/><lb/>and like the Quantity of circles <lb/> <add> which</add> </p> | |||
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to use to be a false idea of
theirs, the more so, when
upon a Stricter Enquiry
I found they neither sailed
nor rowed but receiving
the whole of their motion —
from the Current itself, and
an Oar at the Head, & at the
Stern to guide them.
I reasoned with myself
as I had been accustomed
in order to find the reason
of other People & of Authors
on the Subject — any Body,
floating in a running water,
when first set off receives
an Impulse from the Water
till having acquired the
same Velocity with the Current
itself, is no more struck
by it, but becomes as it
were, a Part of the Sea
and like the Quantity of circles
which
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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