Note 621 — Chapter IX · BRUNO IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

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.