DEFINITION III.

_I call a Matter more Grave_ in specie _than another, of which a

Mass, equall to a Mass of the other, shall weigh more._

And so I say, that Lead is more grave _in specie_ than Tinn, because

if you take of them two equall Masses, that of the Lead weigheth more.

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