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I had finished this book when I fell on the text in which the famous Gassendi refutes the assertion of Peter Cazreus that the impetus of the fall of a heavy ball from a height equal to one diameter of the ball raises in a balance the double of the weight of this ball. He concluded that this impetus is exactly equal to the force of gravity of the ball and, moreover, the impetus acquired in falling a distance of two diameters is equal to twice the weight of the falling ball.
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Borelli, G.A. (2015). The Impetus of a Percussion Cannot Be Measured by the Simple Energy of Gravity. In: Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08497-8_33
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