Topic: Newtonian physics
Topic: physics
Topic: general relativity
Topic: special relativity
Topic: history of science
Group: philosophy of science
Topic: change
Topic: discrete vs. continuous
Topic: infinity and infinitesimal
Topic: atoms and molecules
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Reference
Leibniz, G.W.,
"Specimen dynamicum: An essay in dynamics, ...",
Acta Eruditorum, April 1695, only [1-34] published.
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Other Reference
p. 153-179 in Leibniz, G.W., Philosophical Texts, translated by Francks, R., Woolhouse, R.S., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
Quotations
158 ;;Quote: dead force is an urge to motion; e.g., centrifugal force, gravity, centripetal force, a stretched elastic; potential energy
| 158+;;Quote: potential energy (dead force) is elementary to kinetic energy (living force)
| 158+;;Quote: living force is accompanied by motion; kinetic energy
| 165 ;;Quote: a body's force is proportional to the product of its size and the square of its speed; the law of gravity
| 168 ;;Quote: force is real; space, time, and motion are relative, a relationship
| 168+;;Quote: the laws of motion must preserve the relative nature of motion
| 169 ;;Quote: in substances, change happens spontaneously and in an orderly way
| 169+;;Quote: rule of continuity -- no change takes place by leaps and bounds
| 169+;;Quote: no atoms of maximal hardness; otherwise collisions would cause an instantaneous leap
| 171 ;;Quote: no special laws for equal bodies or bodies at rest; since rest is vanishingly small motion, and equality is vanishingly small inequality
| 171+;;Quote: when instances approach each other continually and eventually merge, the consequences or outcomes must do so also; e.g., parabola is an ellipse
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