| Esa Saarinen - Philosophy - 1982 - 388 pages
...abstraction and idealization that he had undertaken, and he says in the De Motu Corporum : Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless is it compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. Yet Newton points out... | |
| Vladimir Zalmanovich Parton, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Morozov - Science - 1989 - 316 pages
...relative time, space, place, and motion. Next follow his famous laws of motion: "Law 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. Law fl. The alteration... | |
| J.J. Videler - Science - 1993 - 300 pages
...acceleration and deceleration (a and —a, in ms~2) are the rates of change of velocity: a = du/dt (1.8) perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impress'd thereon.' This law describes... | |
| J.J. Kockelmans - Gardening - 1993 - 334 pages
...myth, I suggest that we dwell for a moment on Newton's first law. This law states 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 thereon."^5 One should note that... | |
| Edward Grant - History - 1996 - 268 pages
...law of motion in The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687): "Every body continues [or 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."35 In medieval intellectual... | |
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