Cum enim extra finem centri promoventur, premunt eum locum, ad quem propius accesserunt, quemadmodum in statera pondus, cum examine progreditur ad fines ponderationum.
For when the load slips away from the middle, it presses upon that side to which it is nearer, just as in the case of the weight on a balance when it is adjusted nearer one end of the beam.
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