| John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...with the sum of the phces of the parts: and for that reason it i> eternal, and in the whole body. IV. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from...relative motion the translation from one relative phcc into mother. Thus, in a ship under sail, the relative place of a body is that part of the ship... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...with the sum of the places of the parts ; and for that reason it U eternal, and in the whole body. IV. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from...another ; and relative motion the translation from rne relative place into mnothcr. Thus, in a ship under sail, the relative place of a body is that part... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...the Principia, which was published before Maclaurin's account of his discoveries was written, that " absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place into another." In Marrat's Mechanics, we have the following definition, not of motion, in the abstract, but of the... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...sum of the places of the parts ; and 636 for that reason it is internal, and in the whole body. IV. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from...translation from one relative place into another. Thus, in a ship under sail, the relative place of a body is that part of theship which the body possesses,... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...same, will at one time be one part of absolute space, at another time it will be another part. . . Absolute motion is the translation of a body from...one absolute place into another, and relative motion from one relative place into another. Thus, in a ship under sail, the relative place ia that part of... | |
| Ernst Mach - Mechanics - 1893 - 648 pages
...with respect to other bodies, "and which is commonly taken for immovable [absolute] space .... "IV. Absolute motion is the translation of a body "from one absolute place* to another absolute place ; " and relative motion, the translation from one relative " place to another... | |
| Ernst Mach - History - 1893 - 566 pages
...with respect to other bodies, "and which is commonly taken for immovable [abso" lute] space .... " IV. Absolute motion is the translation of a body "from one absolute place* to another absolute place ; " and relative motion, the translation from one relative " place to another... | |
| Ernest William Hobson - Science - 1923 - 532 pages
...space, which our senses determine by its position with respect to other bodies and which is commonly taken for immovable space. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place to another absolute place : and relative motion, the translation from one relative place to another... | |
| Ernest William Hobson - Science - 1923 - 540 pages
...space, which our senses determine by its position with respect to other bodies and which is commonly taken for immovable space. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place to another absolute place: and relative motion, the translation from one relative place to another... | |
| Ernest William Hobson - Science - 1923 - 538 pages
...space, in its own nature and without regard to anything external, always remains similar and unmovable. Absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place to another absolute place: and relative motion, the translation from one relative place to another... | |
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