 | I. Bernard Cohen - Technology & Engineering - 1983 - 404 pages
...Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World' (Newton, 1952, p. 397). The scholar cannot help but be interested in the fact that Newton still continued... | |
 | Psychology - 1981
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 | Alexander S. Kohanski - Philosophy - 1984 - 340 pages
...passive principle by which bodies . . . receive motion in proportion to the force impressing it. ... By this principle alone there never could have been any motion in the world. It seems to me farther, that these particles [of matter] have not only a vis inertiae, accompanied... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Science - 1989 - 162 pages
...Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion; and now they are in Motion, some other Principle is necessary... | |
 | F. Mathews - Philosophy - 1994 - 192 pages
...Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World.17 The extra-material source of motion is, of course, supposed to be God. Moreover, the gravitational... | |
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The vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in... 
