Philosophy 167: Class 14 - Part 10 - Further Revisions to De Motu: Select Laws in Cedentibus, and the Notion of Mass.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-12-09
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Synopsis: Newton introduces the concept of mass independent of discussion of gravity.
Opening line: "Now the, oh, the laws. What is new here is, and this is again Heravel's translation, because law four has the relative motion of bodies enclosed as a given space."