 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...frem its own nature, flows ecnjably, without regard to any tiling external, and, by another name, is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as... | |
 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 516 pages
...itself and its nature, flows equably, without relation to any thing external ; and by another name is called, duration : Relative, apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, by motion, whether accurate or inequable, commonly used for a true measure of... | |
 | James Ryan - Astronomy - 1827 - 408 pages
...and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to any thing external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time,...motion, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year. 2. Mankind have universally agreed to make use of the diurnal... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...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 some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as... | |
 | 1886 - 934 pages
...tense. " Relative, apparent, and common time," remarks Sir t Isaac Newton, in his Principia, '• le some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year."... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1874 - 984 pages
...and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration ; relative, apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion f). Though we are perhaps obliged to assume the existence... | |
 | James Ferdinand Mallinckrodt - American wit and humor - 1882 - 130 pages
...itself, and from itsown nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration; relative, apparent, and common time...measure of duration by the means of motion, which iicommonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, :i month, a year. "Absolute space, in... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 540 pages
...respect of Space which belongs to Immensity, and is the mere possibility of space or spaces parent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether...means of motion, which is commonly used instead of trne time." . . . "Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains... | |
 | Ernst Mach - History - 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,... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration : relative, apparent, and common time,...motion, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year. " II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard... | |
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate... 
