 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 444 pages
...Common. I. Abfolute, True, and Mathematical Time, of it felf, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to any thing external, and by another...Duration : Relative, Apparent, and Common Time Is fbme fenfible and external (whether accurate or unequable) meafure of Duration by the means of morion,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and frem its own nature, flows ecnjably, without regard to any tiling external, and, by another name, is called duration....apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...mathematical time, of itself, and b»m its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing eitemal, and, by another name, is called duration. Relative,...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and .external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...SCHOLIUM I. Abfolute, true, and mathematical TIME, of itfelf, and from its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing external, and, by another...duration. Relative, apparent, and common time, is fome fenfible and external meafure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly ufed inftead... | |
 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 516 pages
...1. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in itself and its nature, flows equably, without relation to any thing external ; and by another name is called,...apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, by motion, whether accurate or inequable, commonly used for a true measure of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...Scholium I. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing external, and, by another...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as... | |
 | 1886 - 934 pages
...tense. " Relative, apparent, and common time," remarks Sir t Isaac Newton, in his Principia, '• le some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year."... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1874 - 984 pages
...true, and mathematical time of itself and from its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration ;...apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means of motion f). Though we are perhaps obliged to assume the existence... | |
 | James Ferdinand Mallinckrodt - American wit and humor - 1882 - 130 pages
...true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from itsown nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration;...measure of duration by the means of motion, which iicommonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, :i month, a year. "Absolute space, in... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 542 pages
...respect of Space which belongs to Immensity, and is the mere possibility of space or spaces parent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether...motion, which is commonly used instead of true time." . . . "Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar... | |
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate... 
