| Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 444 pages
...Abfolute, True, and Mathematical Time, of it felf, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to any thing external, and by another name is called...Duration : Relative, Apparent, and Common Time Is fbme fenfible and external (whether accurate or unequable) meafure of Duration by the means of morion,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...Abfolute, true, and mathematical TIME, of itfelf, and from its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing external, and, by another name, is called...duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is fome fenfible and external meafure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly ufed inftead... | |
| James Ryan - Astronomy - 1827 - 408 pages
...Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to any thing external, and by another name is called...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by. the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
| 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;...apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which iicommonly used instead... | |
| Ernst Mach - Mechanics - 1893 - 566 pages
..."self, and by its own nature, flows uniformly on, with" out regard to anything external. It is also called ' ' duration. "Relative, apparent, and common time, is some "sensible and external measure of absolute time (dura"tion), estimated by the motions of bodies, whether "accurate or inequable, and... | |
| Ernst Mach - Mechanics - 1893 - 648 pages
...by its own nature, flows uniformly on, witn" out regard to anything external. It is also called 1 ' duration. "Relative, apparent, and common time, is some " sensible and external measure of absolute time (dura"tion), estimated by the motions of bodies, whether "accurate or inequable, and... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1924 - 846 pages
...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 timo, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion."1 Though we arc perhaps... | |
| Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration :...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
| History of Science Society - Physicists - 1928 - 392 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration;...apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by means of motion "II. Absolute space, in its... | |
| John William Navin Sullivan - Physics - 1928 - 266 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration :...apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
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