Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate... Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 411816Full view - About this book
| Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 444 pages
...Relative, True and Apparent, Mathematical and Common. I. Abfolute, True, and Mathematical Time, of it felf, and from its own nature flows equably without regard...Duration : Relative, Apparent, and Common Time Is fbme fenfible and external (whether accurate or unequable) meafure of Duration by the means of morion,... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...force equal and contrary to it, that is jult fufficient to hinder the decent of the body. SCHOLIA. I. Abfolute, true, and mathematical time, of itfelf,...regard to any thing external, and, by another name, is tailed duration. К dative, apparent, and common time, is fome fenfible and exteinal meafure of duration,... | |
| Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 310 pages
...convenient to diftinguifh them into abfolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common. I. Abfolute, true, and mathematical time, of itfelf,...apparent, and common time, is fome fenfible and external (whether accurate or unequable) meafure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly ufed... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and frem its own nature, flows ecnjably, without regard to any tiling external, and, by another name, is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and b»m its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing eitemal, and, by another name, is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and .external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead... | |
| Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 516 pages
...1. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in itself and its nature, flows equably, without relation to any thing external ; and by another name is called,...duration : Relative, apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, by motion, whether accurate or inequable, commonly... | |
| James Ryan - Astronomy - 1827 - 408 pages
...successive. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to any thing external, and by another...duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by. the means of motion,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...III.— OF TIME, SPACE, PLACE, AND MOTION. Scholium I. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably, without regard...duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1874 - 984 pages
...true, and mathematical time of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration ; relative, apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion f). Though we are perhaps obliged... | |
| James Ferdinand Mallinckrodt - American wit and humor - 1882 - 130 pages
...true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from itsown nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration; relative, apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion,... | |
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