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" The vi* inertia is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, receive motion in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. "
The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the ... - Page 564
by Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...receive Motion in proportion' to the Force imprefiing it, and refill as much 'as they are refitted. . By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was neceffary for putting Bodies into Motion; and now they are in Motion; forne other Principle is neceffary...
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Opera, en anglois, avec notes par P. Shaw, Volume 1

Robert Boyle - 1738 - 788 pages
...receive motion in " proportion to the force impreffing it, and " refill as much as they are refilled. By this " principle alone, there never could have...any motion in the world. Some other " principle was neceffary for putting bodies " into motion : for, from the various compo" fition of two motions, 'tis...
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An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology: Tending to Show when and Whence ...

Robert Spearman - Philosophy - 1755 - 466 pages
...receive motion in " proportion to the force impr effing it, and " refift as much as they are refifted. By " this principle alone, there never could " have been any motion in the world. K Some other principle was neceflary for " putting bodies into motion ; and now they " are in motion,...
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The History of Philosophy, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the ...

William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - Philosophy - 1791 - 650 pages
...reft, receive motion in proportion to the force impreffmg it, and relift as much as they are refifted. By this principle alone there never could have been...any motion in the world. Some other principle was neceffary for putting bodies into motion; and now they are in motion, fome other principle is neceffary...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...author (v where observes, is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, and receive motion, in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are кSec RtijsTANCE and IstKTU. VlSCEXrRlPBTA. SeeCENTR AL FORCES. Vis MOTRIZ. See MOVING FORCE. Vis ELÁSTICA....
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...obstacle. Phil. Nat. Princ. Math. lib. 1. The vis inertia;, the same great author elsewhere observes, is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, and receive motion, in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted....
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 6

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...philosophy, is defined by Sir Isaac Newton to be a passive principle, by which bodies persist in a state of motion or rest, receive motion in proportion to the...impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. It is also defined by the same author to be a power implanted in all matter, whereby it resists any...
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A general view of the sciences and arts, Volume 1

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...impetus as thesame body endeavours to- change the state of the body acting upon it. The inertia of matter is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in...rest ; receive motion', in proportion to the force communicating it, and resist in proportion as they are resisted. Attraction is the power or principle...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 11

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...v duced their ¡nchantments. INERTIA of MATTER, in Philosophy, is defined by Sir Isaac Newton to be a passive principle by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, receive njpticm in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. It is also...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 2

Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...principal of which is Inertia. Inertia, as ascribed to matter, signifies a passive principle in matter, by which bodies persist In their motion or rest, receive motion in proportion to the impressing force, and resist as much as they are resisted. Every change, according to this definition,...
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