Space, Time, Motion: An Historical Introduction to the General Theory of RelativityA. A. Knopf, 1924 - 232 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 52 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
الصفحة 36 - And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phenomena, that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were, in his sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
الصفحة 182 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an. absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical! matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
الصفحة 220 - ... purpose. The antiquarians, to whom the game was hitherto unknown, manage to discover certain uniformities; and by long research they at last succeed in establishing beyond doubt the nature of the moves and rules of the game. But it is obvious that no amount of study of the volume will reveal the true nature either of the participants in the game — the chessmen — or the field of the game — the chessboard. With regard to the former, all that is possible is to give arbitrary names distinguishing...
الصفحة 36 - He is not eternity and infinity, but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or space, but he endures and is present. He endures forever, and is everywhere present; and, by existing always and everywhere, he constitutes duration and space.
الصفحة 178 - The effects which distinguish absolute from relative motion are the forces of receding from the axis of circular motion. For there are no such forces in a circular motion purely relative, but in a true and absolute circular motion they are greater or less, according to the quantity of the motion.
الصفحة 87 - Obviously it does not matter if we think of the earth as turning round on its axis, or at rest while the fixed stars revolve round it.
الصفحة 88 - But if we think of the earth at rest and the other celestial bodies revolving round it, there is no flattening of the earth, no Foucault's experiment, and so on — at least according to our usual conception of the law of inertia. Now, one can solve the difficulty in two ways: Either all motion is absolute, or our law of inertia is wrongly expressed. Neumann preferred the first supposition, I, the second. The law of inertia must be so conceived that exactly the same thing results from the second...
الصفحة 166 - The objects of our perception invariably include places and times in combination. Nobody has ever noticed a place except at a time, or a time except at a place.
الصفحة 67 - ... on some relation and it is necessary to suppose another body distinct from the moving one .... so that motion is relative in its nature, it cannot be understood until the bodies are given in relation to which it exists, or generally there cannot be any relation, if there are no terms to be related. Therefore if we suppose that everything is annihilated except one globe, it would be impossible to imagine any movement of that globe. Let us imagine two globes and that besides them nothing else material...