[615] Nov. Org. i. 89.
[616] Ib. i. 65.
[617] Nov. Org. i. 63; cf. also 71.
[618] Ib. i. 45.
[619] Nov. Org. ii. 15. It was a scholastic distinction; E. and S. illustrate it from Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, Ima, q. 45 (E. and S. i. p. 259).
[620] Ib. ii. 1.
[621] E.g. ib. i. 66, where are added “the appetite a thing has to return to its natural dimension or extension (viz. Elasticity), the appetite to conjugate with masses of its own kind, as the dense to the sphere of the earth, the rare to the sphere of the sky.” These are described as really “physical” kinds of motion, not, as Aristotle’s are, “logical” and “scholastical.” Cf. the Natural History, E. and S. ii. 600, 602; and Bruno, supra.
[622] Nov. Org. ii. 8.
[623] Vide Bacon’s Essay on the Vicissitude of Things; and for his Atomism, the Historia Densi et Rari (E. and S. vol. ii.), and Cogit. de Natura Rerum (ib. vol. iii.).
[624] Nov. Org. i. 48.