| Nautical astronomy - 1977 - 1412 pages
..."laws of motion," which he believed were applicable to the planets. Newton's laws of motion are : 1. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force. 2. When a body is acted upon by an external... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 652 pages
...statement of the laws of motion. The first of these laws is : Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by impressed forces to change that state," Thus Professor Tait quotes, and fully approves,... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 58. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of the first law of... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 368 pages
...propositions. In the present Chapter we shall chiefly discuss the First Law of Motion. 10. First Law of Motion. Every body continues in a state of rest or...compelled to change that state by force acting on it. It is necessary to limit the meaning of the word motion in the First Law. By the motion of a body is... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 372 pages
...propositions. In the present Chapter we shall chiefly discuss the First Law of Motion. 10. First Law of Motion. Every body continues in a state of rest or...compelled to change that state by force acting on it. It is necessary to limit the meaning of the word motion in the First Law. By the motion of a body is... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bengal - Asia - 1870 - 894 pages
...which is called inertia is best defined by Newton's law " Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." Now, by uniform motion we mean moving through equal spaces... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1871 - 462 pages
...premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 63. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of the first law of... | |
| Manthano - Apologetics - 1872 - 408 pages
...our reach. But the Newtonian law, that " every body or substance continues in its state oT rest, or of uniform motion, in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change thai state," cannot be accepted by human thought. " The continuance of... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...illud h viribus impressis cogitur stalum suum mutare. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. 211. The meaning of the term Rest, in physical science, cannot... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 900 pages
...motion, and it is in the form there given that they are generally known. They are as follows: Law 1. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted on by some external force. This law results from the property of inertia,... | |
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