Drabkin, Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy , 1969, p | van Berkel, Klaas 2013 , , Johns Hopkins University Press, pp |
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The Lecture Notes in Physics | Butterfield, H 1957 , The Origins of Modern Science, |
Nevertheless, despite defining the concept so elegantly in his laws of motion, even Newton did not actually use the term "inertia" to refer to his First Law.
21Inertia is one of the primary manifestations of , which is a quantitative property of | For example, following, presumably, stated that the "default state" of matter was motion, not stasis |
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57 , retrieved 30 May 2014 Further reading [ ]• The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time | Andrew Motte's English translation: Newton, Isaac 1846 , , New York: Daniel Adee, p |
Classical inertia [ ] According to historian of science , inertia "entered science as a physical consequence of ' geometrization of space-matter, combined with the immutability of God | 7th paragraph of section 8, book 4 of Physica• Galileo, Letters on Sunspots, 1613 quoted in Drake, S |
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" This notion which is termed "circular inertia" or "horizontal circular inertia" by historians of science, is a precursor to, but distinct from, Newton's notion of rectilinear inertia | As no alternate mechanism has been readily accepted, and it is now generally accepted that there may not be one which we can know, the term "inertia" has come to mean simply the phenomenon itself, rather than any inherent mechanism |
"An Analysis of the Historical Development of Ideas About Motion and its Implications for Teaching".
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