 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...motion in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted," he adds, " by this principle alone there never could have been any motion in the * MONBODDO, Ancient Metaphysics, II. 336. VOL. II. 12 world." Surely if every particle had its own... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...rest, receive motion in proportion to the force impressing it, mid re1ist II much as they are resisted. By this principle alone there never could have been...any motion in the world. Some other principle was nrccBuury for putting bodie1 into motion ; and now they are in motion, some ut her principle in necessary... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - Gravitation - 1926 - 270 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... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - Physics - 1928 - 266 pages
...proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted." But, he goes on : " 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... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 428 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... | |
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - Philosophy, Ancient - 1984 - 352 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... | |
 | Roger H. Stuewer - History - 1989 - 410 pages
...faithful to it; see Opticks (Dover edition), page 397: "The Vis inertiae is a passive Principle. ... By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion . . ."; ibid., page 401: "It seems to me farther, that these... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 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... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 474 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... | |
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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... 
