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" Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 141
edited by - 1924
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...since his time been receive as mechanical axioms, or, as they are commonly callei Laws of Motion, which are as follows : 1. Every body continues in its state of rest or unifon motion in a right line, until a change is effected in it, b the agency of some external force....
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 652 pages
...from a brief consideration of his simple statement of the laws of motion. The first of these laws is : Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by impressed forces to change that state," Thus Professor Tait quotes, and fully approves, that conception...
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A treatise on the dynamics of a particle, by P.G. Tait and W.J. Steele

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1865 - 394 pages
...made use of at pleasure. These definitions being premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 58. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of...
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Mechanics for Beginners: With Numerous Examples

Isaac Todhunter - 1867 - 372 pages
...discuss the First Law of Motion. 10. First Law of Motion. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by force acting on it. It is necessary to limit the meaning of...
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Mechanics for beginners

Isaac Todhunter - 1867 - 368 pages
...difficulty. 133. We will here repeat the Laws of Motion. I. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled to change that state by force acting on it. II. Change of motion is proportional to...
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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1870 - 894 pages
...own state of rest or motion. This property which is called inertia is best defined by Newton's law " Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state." Now, by uniform motion we mean moving through...
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A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle: With Numerous Examples

Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - 1871 - 462 pages
...made use of at pleasure. These definitions being premised, we give Newton's Laws of Motion. 63. LAW I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. We may logically convert the assertion of...
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Elements of Natural Philosophy, Part 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1872 - 316 pages
...movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus illud h viribus impressis cogitur stalum suum mutare. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform...motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state. 211. The meaning of the term Rest, in physical...
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Youth and Years at Oxford, in Conversation on Questions of the Day

Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 pages
...the means of verification are within our reach. But the Newtonian law, that " every body or substance continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion, in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state," cannot be accepted by human thought. "The...
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Youth and Years at Oxford, in Conversation on Questions of the Day

Manthano - 1872 - 408 pages
...our reach. But the Newtonian law, that " every body or substance continues in its state oT rest, or of uniform motion, in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change thai state," cannot be accepted by human thought. "...
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