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" Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. "
Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Page 319
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The Cambridge Companion to Newton

I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 518 pages
...without some other thing which impedes it." 19 Newton, Principia, 3rd edn, vol. i, p. 19. "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." It is interesting to note...
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The Squashed Philosophers

Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices. LAW I. AXIOMS, OR LAWS OF MOTION. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. Projectiles persevere in their...
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Avian Flight

John J. Videler - Science - 2006 - 292 pages
...text of the first law as it appeared in the first English translation (Motte 1729) reads: 'Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to Box 1.2 Newton's basic laws of motion First An object will remain at rest...
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Redeeming Science: A God-centered Approach

Vern S. Poythress - Religion - 2006 - 386 pages
...Sir Isaac Newton. NEWTON'S THREE LAWS OF MOTION Newton formulated three laws of motion. 1. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. 2. The alteration of motion...
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A Short Course in General Relativity

James A. Foster, J. David Nightingale - Science - 2010 - 295 pages
...8 Unless one believes in tachyons. 2.6 Newton's laws of motion Newton's first law that "every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [straight] line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon" clearly has...
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Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity

Rafael Ferraro - Science - 2007 - 310 pages
...raised by Newton to the rank of First Law of Dynamics, also known as Principle of inertia: Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. I. Newton, Principia (London,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

1815 - 596 pages
...forward in a right line. His first axiom, therefore, or law of motion is false : viz. " That every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.'' For, on the contrary, if...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ..., Volume 3

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Electronic journals - 1917 - 810 pages
...stated the principle of conservation of energy, derived it from Newtonian dynamics. * "I. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." "II. The alteration of motion...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ..., Volume 3

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Electronic journals - 1917 - 868 pages
...stated the principle of conservation of energy, derived it from Newtonian dynamics. 2 "I. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." "II. The alteration of motion...
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