 | Isaac Newton - 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... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1738 - 790 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... | |
 | Robert Spearman - 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,... | |
 | William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - 1791 - 648 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...repelling, powers which intercede the particles. The vis inertia is a passive principle, by •which bodies persist in their motion or rest, receive motion...principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion; and now 'they are in motion, some other principle is necessary for preserving the motion : for from... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...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. See RESISTANCE and INERTIA. vrs YISCENTRIPETA. See CENTRAL roRcci. Vis MOTRIX. See MOVING FORCE. VlS... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 620 pages
...and repelling powers which intercede the particles. The vi* inertia is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, receive motion...principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion ; and now they are in motion, some other principle is necessary for preserving the motion : for from... | |
 | William Nicholson - 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... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...change the state of the body acting upon it. The inertia of matter is a passive principle, by which bodies persist in their motion or 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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The vis inertiae 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. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in... 
