| Edward Grant - 1996 - 268 sider
...law of motion in The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687): "Every body continues [or perseveres] in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."35 In medieval intellectual... | |
| Kevin R. Coombes, Ronald Lipsman, Jonathan Rosenberg - 1998 - 314 sider
...translated by A. Motte, republished in the Great Minds Series, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 19}: Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. The alteration of motion is... | |
| Peter Machamer - 1998 - 474 sider
...is augmented by six corollaries outlining the composition of forces. His laws are: Law I. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impress'd thereon. Law II. The alteration of... | |
| David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - 2000 - 390 sider
...abstraction and idealization that he had undertaken, and he says in the De Motu Corporum: "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless is it compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." Yet Newton points out immediately... | |
| David Rabe - 2000 - 518 sider
...perspective that the law we have been discussing is known to exist." "And the law is that 'Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a right line unless it is compelled to change by forces — ' Wait a minute! Wait!" "What?" "Compelled?" "Yes."... | |
| David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - 2000 - 386 sider
...abstraction and idealization that he had undertaken, and he says in the De Motu Corporum: "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless is it compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." Yet Newton points out immediately... | |
| David Rabe - 2000 - 518 sider
...perspective that the law we have been discussing is known to exist." "And the law is that 'Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a right line unless it is compelled to change by forces — ' Wait a minute! Wait!" "What?" "Compelled?" "Is that... | |
| Paul J. Achtemeier, Joel B. Green, Marianne Meye Thompson - 2001 - 644 sider
...Isaac Newton's (d. 1727) laws of motion, also known as Newtonian mechanics: • First Law: "every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [ie, straight] line, unless it is compelled to change that state ..." — that is, mass possesses inertia,... | |
| Hugh G. Gauch - 2003 - 458 sider
...introduction and some definitions, and then states the following three axioms or laws of motion: I. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. II. The alteration of motion... | |
| M. Hulswit - 2002 - 278 sider
...according to his three famous laws of motion, which are stated in implicitly causal terms: (1 ) Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. (2) The alteration of motion... | |
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