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Quote: Newton--motion and rest are only relatively distinguished

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Newtonian physics

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Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923


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