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Page 167
tract , in which , with one or two exceptions , Dr. R.'s good sense is eminently
conspicuous : • Mechanical forces are ... of the intimate nature of mechanical
force , have advanced most incongruous opinions , which have spoiled the
beauty of ...
tract , in which , with one or two exceptions , Dr. R.'s good sense is eminently
conspicuous : • Mechanical forces are ... of the intimate nature of mechanical
force , have advanced most incongruous opinions , which have spoiled the
beauty of ...
Page 168
This is what has been called , and surely with no great impropriety of language ,
mechanic force . It is a quantity which can by no contrivance be in any degree
increased ; and it must naturally , if applied to machines , be diminished by
friction ...
This is what has been called , and surely with no great impropriety of language ,
mechanic force . It is a quantity which can by no contrivance be in any degree
increased ; and it must naturally , if applied to machines , be diminished by
friction ...
Page 169
There could not have been any dispute , had not philosophers allowed
themselves to consider force as something existing in body , whereas the term is
never used to express any reality except the phenomenon which they conceived
to be its ...
There could not have been any dispute , had not philosophers allowed
themselves to consider force as something existing in body , whereas the term is
never used to express any reality except the phenomenon which they conceived
to be its ...
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