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Excerpt from Knowledge for the People, or the Plain Why and Because, Vol. 7: Familiarizing Subjects of Useful Curiosity and Amusing Research; Mechanics
Because it denotes that the atoms, in regard to motion, have about them what may be figuratively called a stubbornness, tending always to keep them in their existing 5 state, whateyer it words, that bodies neither acquire motion, nor lose motion, nor bend their course in motion, but in exact accordance to some force applied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
