Quote: the laws of acceleration are conventions but they are not arbitrary; the laws were justified by experiment

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Are the laws of acceleration and of the composition of forces only arbitrary conventions? Conventions, yes; arbitrary, no--they would be so if we lost sight of the experiments which led the founders of the science to adopt them, and which, imperfect as they were, were sufficient to justify their adoption.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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