Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 552
... motion , as difcovered by experience , we have at prefent no con- cern they are explained and fully established in other articles of this work ( fee MECHANICS , MOTION , & c . ) . The principal queftions which we have to confider are ...
... motion , as difcovered by experience , we have at prefent no con- cern they are explained and fully established in other articles of this work ( fee MECHANICS , MOTION , & c . ) . The principal queftions which we have to confider are ...
Page 554
... motion , his reafoning appears unanswerable ; but we do not perceive how it con- cludes against the poffibility of motion itself as exist- ing in a fingle body . It has been already fhown in the chapter of fimple apprehenfion and ...
... motion , his reafoning appears unanswerable ; but we do not perceive how it con- cludes against the poffibility of motion itself as exist- ing in a fingle body . It has been already fhown in the chapter of fimple apprehenfion and ...
Page 555
... motion . I know that many Newtonians will not allow this : I believe they are milled , as I myfelf have formerly been milled , by the expreffion a state of motion . Motion is a change ; a continuance of motion is a farther change ; a ...
... motion . I know that many Newtonians will not allow this : I believe they are milled , as I myfelf have formerly been milled , by the expreffion a state of motion . Motion is a change ; a continuance of motion is a farther change ; a ...
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