| Frederick Suppe - Philosophy - 1977 - 854 pages
...Local Motions, usually referred to nowadays as the Discorsi.39 (1) "Furthermore we may remark that any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be...condition which is found only on horizontal planes. . . ." (2) "Imagine any particle projecting along a horizontal plane without friction; then we know,... | |
| Alistair Cameron Crombie - Science - 1995 - 756 pages
...by the steeper arcs BG or BI. This result he developed as follows : Furthermore we may remark that any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be...horizontal planes; for in the case of planes which slope downwards there is already present a cause of acceleration, while on planes sloping upwards there... | |
| W. J. Stronge - Science - 2004 - 306 pages
...book contains a clear statement of the principle of inertia (Newton's first law of motion)8: ". . . any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be rigidly maintained as long as external causes of acceleration or retardation are removed, . . . ." [243].9 To examine uniformly accelerated... | |
| Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - Science - 2001 - 604 pages
...inertia, which he states again in his later book Two New Sciences (1638): Furthermore we may remark that any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be...retardation are removed, a condition which is found only on 1In fact he has proved a little too much. Strictly speaking it is not true that a stone dropped from... | |
| Robert Karplus - Education - 2002 - 364 pages
...background regarding the inertia of the system. You must be careful, however, 276 ". . . we may remark that any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be...causes of acceleration or retardation are removed . . .' Galileo Galilei Dialoghi della Nuove Science, 7655 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION Inertial mass is measured... | |
| Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 130 pages
...only after Galileo. since here it experiences neither acceleration nor retardation . . ." and ". . . any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be...acceleration or retardation are removed, a condition which is [experimentally] found only on horizontal planes. . . ." This velocity, he added, if acting alone "would... | |
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