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TO THE STATES OF THE

UNITED

NETHERLANDS MUCH

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Since it is well known, noble Lords, the constant exercise these lands have with water, more than others, and since it is also evident what great advantage the causal knowledge of the heavy properties of water can provide; noting also that our Weeghconst Art of Weighing/Statics reveals these things through their ultimate principles: I therefore send Your Honors the description of the same, just as they, it is true, existed in the water in times past, but many of them (which I say the more freely, because I thought the following sufficiently proves this, and also so that I may give reasons for what prompted me to write to Your Honors) were unknown to any of the mortals before us.