Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 8 |
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Page 118 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 118 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
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