 | Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 pagine
...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 the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion. (Newton, Opticks, p. 397) Indeed, only by regarding impressed... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pagine
...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 the world. Some other principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion; and now that they are in motion, some other principle is... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - 2000 - 368 pagine
...prove the existence of God. Having pointed out that inertia is merely a passive principle, he says: "By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion" (Koyre FCW, 216). The necessity of thinking of matter as... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pagine
...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 the world. Some other principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion; and now that they are in motion, some other principle is... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pagine
...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 the World: 40 Consequently, in Newton's cosmological theory as in the very different writings we have been examining,... | |
 | Brian Davies - 2002 - 415 pagine
...III, Part I (in Great Books of the Western World. Vol. 34, p. 540): "By this principle [vis inertiae] alone there never could have been any motion in the world. Some other principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion; and now they are in motion, some other principle is necessary... | |
 | Everett Mendelsohn - 2002 - 594 pagine
...the vis inertiae, a passive principle through which bodies tend to remain at rest or in motion. Yet "by this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World."99 Forces are required, Newton contends, to account for gravity, fermentation, and other kinds... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - 2002 - 392 pagine
...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 the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion; and now they are in Motion, some other Principle is necessary... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Volker Meja - 2011 - 451 pagine
...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 the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting bodies into Motion; and now they are in Motion, some other Principle is necessary... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 2005 - 521 pagine
...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 the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion, and now that they are in Motion, some other Principle is... | |
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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... 
