 | Park Benjamin - Electricity - 1895 - 638 pages
...by the stone. If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse will be equally drawn back toward the stone; for the distended rope, by the same endeavor...relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much toward the stone, as it does the stone toward the horse, and will obstruct the progress of the one... | |
 | Charles Samuel Jackson, Robert Moir Milne - Statics - 1907 - 408 pages
...finger is also pressed by the stone. If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope the horse, if I may so say, will be equally drawn back towards the stone, for the distended rope by the same effort to relax itself will draw the horse as much towards the stone as it does the stone towards the... | |
 | Richard De Villamil - Aerodynamics - 1917 - 262 pages
...see what Newton actually said. "If a horse draws a stone tyed to a rope, the horse (if I may so say) will be equally drawn back towards the stone ; for the distended rope, by the same endeavour to relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone as it does the stone... | |
 | Richard De Villamil - Mechanics, Analytic - 1928 - 240 pages
...so say) will be equally drawn back towards the stone ; for the distended rope, by the same endeavour to relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone, as it draws the stone towards the horse." The bracketed words, " if I may so say," are usually omitted by... | |
 | Richard De Villamil - Mechanics, Analytic - 1928 - 240 pages
...said in reference to this. " If a horse draws a stone, tied to a rope, the horse (if I may so say) will be equally drawn back towards the stone ; for the distended rope, by the same endeavour to relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone, as it draws the... | |
 | Morris H. Shamos - Science - 1987 - 384 pages
...equally drawn hack towards the stone: for the distended rope, hy the same endeavor to relax or unhend itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone, as it does the stone towards the horse, and will ohstruct the progress of the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a hody impinge upon another,... | |
 | Lawrence S. Lerner - Physics - 1996 - 640 pages
...a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse (if I may say so) will be equally drawn back toward the stone: for the distended rope, by the same endeavor to relax or unbend (unstretch) itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone as it does the stone towards the... | |
 | Jeanne Fahnestock - Figures of speech - 1999 - 249 pages
...If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse (if I may say so) will be equally drawn back to the stone; for the distended rope, by the same endeavor...towards the stone as it does the stone towards the horse [urgebit equum versus lapidem, ac lapidem versus equum], and will obstruct the progress of the one... | |
 | Maria Teresa Cabré - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 264 pages
...is also pressed by the stone. If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse (if I may so say) will be equally drawn back towards the stone; for the distended rope, by the same endeavour to relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much towards the stone as it does the stone... | |
 | George B. Benedek, Felix M.H. Villars - Science - 2000 - 578 pages
...a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse (if I may so say) will be equally drawn back toward the stone; for the distended rope, by the same endeavor...relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much toward the stone as it does the stone toward the horse, and will obstruct the progress of the one as... | |
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Whatever draws or presses another is as much drawn or pressed by that other. If you press a stone with your finger, the finger is also pressed by the stone. If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope, the horse (if I may so say... 
