ejsentialto Matte-r* &c. 51

moment (if moment were possible on thissupposition) by carrying any obvious bodyalong with it (/). These are consequencesequally (and flagrantly) contrary to reasonand experience.

XIX. So

(I) Mr. Herman hath a paragraph in the Prano-tanda to his Phoronomia, the whole of which I begleave to cite, both as it confirms what is here laid,and nearly coincides with that description of the re-sistance of matter given above, N° 9. It is his nth :

Sed imji. etiam corporibus vis quadam pajjiva, ex quanultus mesas, nee tendentia ad mctum resultat ; fed con~Jtflk in rehixu illo , quo cuilibet vi externa mutationemstatus, idejfmotus Del quietis, corporibus indue ere conan-ti reluctatur. Sjbuæ refijlentire vis, fignificantijftmo va—cabulo, a sumnw djlronom Joh. Keplero' vis inertiadiet a ejl'. Hac vis inertia in corporibus qmcscentibus,sr satis prodit ; etenim corpus quodcunque A in altud, fedquiescent, B impadlum aliquid de sud vi & motu amities,excipiensque B aliquid virium & motus ab impellente Aatquiret. Ex quo claret, quiefeens corpus B reapse vimaliquant passivam habere, a vi in id incurrentis carports Afrangendam aiqne snferandam ; alioqui impellens A poshoccur sum nihil de site motu amissse debuisset, cum corpusquiescent B, st rcsjhndr facultate careret, alterius motuimllam remoram offeree pojfit, adeb ut amlo, impellensA y impulsitm B, ed ipsd edentate, qua corpus A anteoccursum ferebatur , eiiamposl impaflum incidere deberet,quod phanomenis adversari nemo non videt. The fameargument will Ihew the vh inertia also, as easily, inE 2 moving