 | Elias Dexter - 1869 - 184 oldal
...would have them understood. The third of the said eight definitions is as follows : " The Vis Infita, or Innate Force of Matter, is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to persevere in Us present stale, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 oldal
...motion to be given or arrested. Sir Isaac Newton calls it "the innate," or inborn "force of matter — a power of resisting, by which every body, as much...persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line." It is the supremo law of the material world that all... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - 1082 oldal
...Leibnitz maintained that matter manifests force in maintaining its state of rest. " The via insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endearours to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 oldal
...Leibnitz maintained that matter manifests force in maintaining its state of rest. " The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting...persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. This force is ever proportional to the body whose force... | |
 | George Minchin Minchin - 1882 - 326 oldal
...is spoken of as above by Newton (Principia, Definition iii, Book i). Newton says : ' The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting...persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a right line.' And in his remarks on the definition he says that ' this... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - 1885 - 386 oldal
...Newton defines vis-inertiae as ' an innate force of matter, or power of resisting, by which every bodyas much as in it lies, endeavours to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forwards in a right line.' 1 Now, that any bodies have an innate tendency to move... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Hall - 1886 - 50 oldal
...Peirce, and which occurs on page 107 of Minchin's Uniplanar Kinematics. " Newton says : ' The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Hall - 1886 - 50 oldal
...innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a right line.' And in his remarks on the definition, he says that '... | |
 | William Fleming - 1890 - 458 oldal
...Leibnitz maintained that matter manifests force in maintaining its state of rest. " The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting...persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. This force is ever proportional to the body whose force... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - 1898 - 452 oldal
..."Principia" his first chapter is a series of definitions, the third of which is as follows : "The visinstta, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in... | |
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The vis insita, or innate -force of matter, is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in a right line. 
