 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.  Nature - Page 171edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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