 | Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn - Indians of North America History - 1996
...go its own? The Vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World.178 Once more, we see Newton reject the world of Descartes: The passivity of mechanicism would... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 2003 - 1616 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 goes on to surmise that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable,... | |
 | Peter Machamer - Philosophy - 1998 - 462 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.13 Although it explains why bodies persist in their motions, the vis inertiae is nothing like... | |
 | Science - 1999 - 512 pages
Pursues the development of physics from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the founders of quantum mechanics. | |
 | Roger Ariew - Philosophy - 2000 - 110 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 that they are in motion, some other principle is... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - Religion - 2000 - 345 pages
...prove the existence of God. Having pointed out that inertia is merely a passive principle, he says: "By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion" (Koyre FCW, 216). The necessity of thinking of matter as... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 432 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 that they are in motion, some other principle is... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 262 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: 40 Consequently, in Newton's cosmological theory as in the very different writings we have been examining,... | |
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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... 
