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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. "
The New Reformation: From Physical to Spiritual Realities - Page 49
by Michael Pupin - 2005 - 308 pages
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 75

Christianity - 1882 - 662 pages
...Newton in his own statement of the first law, emphatically recognized their existence. His words are : 'Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled ly force to change that state.'* * Sec 'Treatise on Natural Philosophy,'...
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 652 pages
...statement of the laws of motion. The first of these laws is : Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by impressed forces to change that state," Thus Professor Tait quotes, and fully approves,...
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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
...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...
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Mechanics for Beginners: With Numerous Examples

Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 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...
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Mechanics for beginners

Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 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...
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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Asiatic Society of Bengal - Asia - 1870 - 894 pages
...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...
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A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle: With Numerous Examples

Peter Guthrie Tait, William John Steele - Dynamics of a particle - 1871 - 462 pages
...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...
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Elements of Natural Philosophy, Part 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...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...
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Youth and Years at Oxford, in Conversation on Questions of the Day

Manthano - Apologetics - 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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Principles of Mechanics

Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Mechanics - 1874 - 336 pages
...first law of motion is the following : First 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. This law is intended to assert the inertia...
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