 | Nautical astronomy - 1977 - 1412 pages
...three "laws of motion," which he believed were applicable to the planets. Newton's laws of motion are : 1. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force. 2. When a body is acted upon by an external... | |
 | 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, that conception... | |
 | 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 of... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 368 pages
...propositions. In the present Chapter we shall chiefly 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... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Mechanics - 1867 - 372 pages
...propositions. In the present Chapter we shall chiefly 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... | |
 | 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 through... | |
 | 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 of... | |
 | 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 physical... | |
 | 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. "... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 900 pages
...laws of motion, and it is in the form there given that they are generally known. They are as follows: Law 1. Every body continues in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted on by some external force. This law results from the property of inertia,... | |
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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. 
