The Mechanics of Laplace (Classic Reprint)

MECHANICS
LAPLACE.
CHAP. I.
Of the equilibrium and of the composition of the forces zchich act upon a material point. ' ?
2, A Body appears to us to be in motion when it changes its situation relative to a system of bodies which we suppose to be at rest: but as all bodies, even, those "which seem to be in a state of the most absolute rest, may be in motion ; we conceive a space, boundless, immoveable, arid penetrable to matter s it is to the parts of this real or ideal space that we by"imagination refer the situation of bodies ; and we conceive them to be in motion when they answer successively to different parts of space.
The nature of that singular modification in consequence of which bodies are transported from one place to another j is, and .always {will be, unknown: we have designated it by the name of force; and we are not able,
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