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" translation of place (transport) of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies which directly touch it, and are considered at rest, into the vicinity of others. "
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Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

Tian Yu Cao - Science - 2004 - 424 pages
...the matter rather than in accordance with common usage, we can say that movement is the transference of one part of matter or of one body, from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous to it, and considered at rest, into the vicinity of some others. The quote by...
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Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science

Daniel Garber - Philosophy - 2001 - 354 pages
...... in accordance with the truth of the matter, we must say that it is the translation [translatio] of one part of matter, or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies which immediately touch it and which are regarded as being at rest, into the vicinity of others. . . . And...
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The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the ...

Julian B. Barbour - Science - 2001 - 778 pages
...common usage (in order to attribute a determinate nature to it): we can say that it is the transference of one part of matter or of one body. from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous to it and considered as at rest, into the vicinity of (some! others. The virtue...
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Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in ...

Craig Callender, Nick Huggett - Science - 2001 - 380 pages
...right, but 1 am afraid that QM, as usual, will win. 3. 'We can say that movement is the transference of one part of matter or of one body, from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous to it, and considered at rest, into the vicinity of some others' (Descartes,...
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Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy

Stephen Gaukroger - Philosophy - 2002 - 270 pages
...does after all have a dynamical basis. In article 25 Descartes defines motion as 'the transference of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous with it and considered as at rest, into the vicinity of others'. This definition...
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Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy

Stephen Gaukroger - Philosophy - 2002 - 270 pages
...does after all have a dynamical basis. In article 25 Descartes defines motion as 'the transference of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous with it and considered as at rest, into the vicinity of others'. This definition...
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Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy

Stephen Gaukroger - Philosophy - 2002 - 270 pages
...does after all have a dynamical basis. In article 25 Descartes defines motion as 'the transference of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies immediately contiguous with it and considered as at rest, into the vicinity of others'. This definition...
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Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Isaac Newton - Philosophy - 2004 - 194 pages
...each body (Principles, Part II, articles 28, 31, 32), which may be defined as being the translation of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity' of those bodies that immediately adjoin it, and w'hich are regarded as being at rest, to the vicinity of others (Principles,...
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