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Having thus vanished levity, and its upward motion, from all the boundaries of nature, we aver anew, that the elements of air and fire, which alone come into the dispute, are endowed with gravity.
Art IX. A Translation of Rey's Essays on the Calcination of Metals, &c (1821)
What shadows would be if there were no bodies, such natural motion in the upper regions will become, without levity. For, of a truth, it would be monstrous, to see natural effects without a natural cause. That is said to move naturally whose cause of motion is in itself.
Art IX. A Translation of Rey's Essays on the Calcination of Metals, &c (1821)