...that without any inconvenience. But in physical disquisitions, we should abstract from the senses. For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to which the places and motions of others can be referred. In these statements we can recognize, in a somewhat involved form, the distinction...

...senses and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible \, measures of them. For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to...the places and motions of others may be referred." Before we proceed further with Newton's argument, let us pause for a brief analysis of the position...

...our senses and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible measures of them. For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to...the places and motions of others may be referred." It seems strange that Newton should postulate the existence of two entities, absolute time and absolute...

...senses, and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible measures of them. For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to which the places and motions may be referred." universe, wherein everything is involved that is brought forth in subsequent evolution."...

...have the statement that " Absolute ind relative motion and rest are distinguished from one another by their properties, causes, and effects. It is a property of rest that bodies truly at rest are at rest among themselves, but true rest cannot be defined by the relative positions...

...we use relative ones. . . in philosophical discussion, we ought to abstract from our senses. . - For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to...the places and motions of others may be referred. . . “The effects which distinguish absolute from relative motion are the forces of receding from...

...themselves providing standards of absolute rest, although he qualified this by remarking ‘it may be there is no body really at rest, to which the places and motions of others can be referred'. At a later period, space wsa supposed to be filled with a jelly-like ether, and this...

...affairs. . . . For it may be that there is no body really at rest [that is, in a state of absolute rest], to which the places and motions of others may be referred. 10 For Newton, then, absolute space and time (and hence absolute motion) are entities that are not...

...senses, and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible measures of them. For it may be that there is no body really at rest, to...rest do rest in respect to one another. And therefore as it is possible, that in the remote regions of the fixed stars, or perhaps far beyond them, there...

..."philosophical disquisitions," where the distinction of absolute and merely relative place is essential, "for it may be that there is no body really at rest, to...the places and motions of others may be referred." A body included in another is at rest with respect to the whole of which it is a part, but it may be...