| 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
...studies the 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...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
...studies the 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| James Bell Pettigrew - Aeronautics - 1873 - 336 pages
...series of propositions which I take the liberty of transcribing : — " Fundamental Axioms. — First, every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, until a change is effected by the agency of some mechanical force. Secondly, any change... | |
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