as is that Viall of Glass whilest it is full of Air: but when, such light Matter departing, there succeedeth Water into the same Porosities and Cavities, there results a compound of Water and Glass more grave than a like Mass of Water: but the excess of its Gravity consists in the Matter of the Glass, and not in the Water, which cannot be graver than it self: so that which remaines of the Wood, the Air of its Cavities departing, if it shall be more grave _in specie_ than Water, fil but its Porosities with Water, and you shall have a Compost of Water and of Wood more grave than Water, but not by vertue of the Water received into and imbibed by the Porosities, but of that Matter of the Wood which remains when the Air is departed: and being such it shall, according to the Doctrine of _Archimedes_, goe to the bottom, like as before, according to the same Doctrine it did swim. [Sidenote: The Authors answer to the fourth Objection.] As to that finally which presents itself in the fourth place, namely, that the _Ancients_ have been heretofore confuted by _Aristotle_, who denying Positive and Absolute Levity, and truely esteeming all Bodies to be grave, said, that that which moved upward was driven by the circumambient Air, and therefore that also the Doctrine of _Archimedes_, as an adherent to such an Opinion was convicted and confuted: I answer first, that _Signor Buonamico_ in my judgement hath imposed upon _Archimedes_, and deduced from his words more than ever he intended by them, or may from his Propositions be collected, in regard that _Archimedes_ neither denies, nor admitteth Positive Levity, nor doth he so much as mention it: so that much less ought _Buonamico_ to inferre, that he hath denyed that it might be the Cause and Principle of the Ascension of Fire, and other Light Bodies[23]: having but only demonstrated, that Solid Bodies more grave than Water descend in it, according to the excess of their Gravity above the Gravity of that, he demonstrates likewise, how the less grave ascend in the same Water[24], accordng to its excess of Gravity, above the Gravity of them. So that the most that can be gathered from the Demonstration of _Archimedes_ is, that like as the excess of the Gravity of the Moveable above the Gravity of the Water, is the Cause that it descends therein, so the excess of the Gravity of the water above that of the Moveable, is a sufficient Cause why it descends not, but rather betakes it self to swim: not enquiring whether of moving upwards there is, or is not any other Cause contrary to Gravity: nor doth _Archimedes_ discourse less properly than if one should say: If the South Winde shall assault the Barke with greater _Impetus_ than is the violence with which the Streame of the River carries it towards the South, the motion of it shall be towards the North: but if the _Impetus_ of the Water shall overcome that of the Winde, its motion shall be towards the South. The discourse is excellent and would be