Newton's Principia : $b The mathematical principles of natural philosophyNewton, Isaac
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Newton's Principia : $b The mathematical principles of natural philosophy
Newton, Isaac
Celestial mechanics -- Early works to 1800; Mechanics -- Early works to 1800
COR. 4. Now if the globes are not homogeneous, the space described by
the denser globe must be augmented in the ratio of the density. For the
motion, with an equal velocity, is greater in the ratio of the density,
and the time (by this Prop.) is augmented in the ratio of motion
directly, and the space described in the ratio of the time.
COR. 5. And if the globes move in different mediums, the space, in
a medium which, cæteris paribus, resists the most, must be
diminished in the ratio of the greater resistance. For the time
(by this Prop.) will be diminished in the ratio of the augmented
resistance, and the space in the ratio of the time.
LEMMA II.
The moment of any genitum is equal to the moments of each
of the generating sides drawn into the indices of the powers of those
sides, and into their co-efficients continually.
I call any quantity a genitum which is not made by addition or
subduction of divers parts, but is generated or produced in arithmetic
by the multiplication, division, or extraction of the root of any terms
whatsoever; in geometry by the invention of contents and sides, or
of the extremes and means of proportionals. Quantities of this kind
are products, quotients, roots, rectangles, squares, cubes, square
and cubic sides, and the like. These quantities I here consider as
variable and indetermined, and increasing or decreasing, as it were,
by a perpetual motion or flux; and I understand their momentaneous
increments or decrements by the name of moments; so that the increments
may be esteemed as added or affirmative moments; and the decrements
as subducted or negative ones. But take care not to look upon finite
particles as such. Finite particles are not moments, but the very
quantities generated by the moments. We are to conceive them as the
just nascent principles of finite magnitudes. Nor do we in this Lemma
regard the magnitude of the moments, but their first[Pg 262] proportion, as
nascent. It will be the same thing, if, instead of moments, we use
either the velocities of the increments and decrements (which may also
be called the motions, mutations, and fluxions of quantities), or any
finite quantities proportional to those velocities. The co-efficient
of any generating side is the quantity which arises by applying the
genitum to that side.
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