A History of MechanicsCourier Corporation, 7 лист. 2012 р. - 688 стор. "A remarkable work which will remain a document of the first rank for the historian of mechanics." — Louis de Broglie |
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... natural background, without the distortion caused by juxtaposing them in time. The present book is divided into five parts. The first treats of the originators, the precursors, from the beginning up to and including the Sixteenth ...
... natural, for it is in no way strange that something remarkable should result from something which is more remarkable, and the most remarkable fact is the combination of opposites with each other. A circle is made up of such opposites ...
... natural motions and violent motions. \ The fall of heavy bodies, for example, is a natural motion, while the motion of a projectile is a violent one. To each thing corresponds a natural place. In this place its substantial form achieves ...
... natural place of heavy bodies is the centre of the World, the natural place of light bodies is the region contiguous with the Sphere of the Moon. Heavenly bodies are not subject to the laws applicable to terrestrial ones-—every star is ...
... natural motion, that is to say no tendency towards a natural place, would be possible. Incidentally this idea led him to formulate a principle analogous to that of inertia, and to justify this in the same way as that used by the great ...