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 | Ernst Mach - Mechanics - 1893 - 648 pages
...by its own nature, flows uniformly on, witn" out regard to anything external. It is also called 1 ' 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, and... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1924 - 846 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration; relative, apparent and common timo, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion."1 Though we arc perhaps... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration :...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1927 - 666 pages
...true, and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration:...is some sensible and external ' measure of duration by means ot motion, which is commonly used instead of true time, such as an hour, a day, a month, a... | |
 | History of Science Society - Physicists - 1928 - 392 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration;...apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by means of motion "II. Absolute space, in its... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - Physics - 1928 - 266 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration :...apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
 | History of Science Society - Physicists - 1928 - 394 pages
...itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another [56] name is called duration; relative, apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by means of motion "II. Absolute space, in its... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration:...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...and mathematical time, of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration;...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion. II. Absolute space, in... | |
 | Adolf Grünbaum - 1968 - 392 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably1 without relation to anything external and by another name is called duration: relative,...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used... | |
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