Note 39 — Chapter VIII · EXPERIMENT

“Heaviness or weight is not here considered, as being such a naturall quality, whereby condensed bodies do of themselves tend downwards; but rather as being an affection whereby they may be measured. And in this sense Aristotle himself referres it amongst the other species of quantity, as having the same proper essence, which is to be compounded of integrall parts. So a pound doth consist of ounces....” (Bishop Wilkins: Mathematicall Magick, 1648.)