Cum enim ansa propius caput, unde lancula pendet, ibi ut centrum est conlocata et aequipondium in alteram partem scapi, per puncta vagando quo longius aut etiam ad extremum perducitur, paulo et inpari pondere amplissimam pensionem parem perficit per scapi librationem, et examinatio longius ab centro recedens ita inbecillior.
For when the handle of suspension is placed like a centre, nearer the end of the beam from which the scale hangs, and the weight moves along the points marked on the other side of the centre, the further it is taken (or even to the end), with a small and unequal weight, it is made equal to a very large weight by bringing the beam to a level. The further the balancing weight retreats from the centre, to that extent may it be of slighter amount.
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