 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
