The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)Hobbes, Thomas
Philosophy
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)
Hobbes, Thomas
Philosophy, English -- 17th century
Thirdly, that cessation in the movent does not cause cessation in that
which was moved by it. For (by number 11 of art. 1 of this chapter)
whatsoever is moved perseveres in the same way and with the same
swiftness, as long as it is not hindered by something that is moved
against it. Now it is manifest, that cessation is not contrary motion;
and therefore it follows that the standing still of the movent does not
make it necessary that the thing moved should also stand still.
Coroll. They are therefore deceived, that reckon the taking away of the
impediment or resistance for one of the causes of motion.
[Sidenote: Divers considerations of motions.]
4. Motion is brought into account for divers respects; first, as in a
body _undivided_, that is, considered as a point; or, as in a _divided_
body. In an undivided body, when we suppose the way, by which the motion
is made, to be a line; and in a divided body, when we compute the motion
of the several parts of that body, as of parts.
Secondly, from the diversity of the regulation of motion, it is in body,
considered as undivided. sometimes _uniform_ and sometimes _multiform_.
_Uniform_ is that by which equal lines are always transmitted in equal
times; and _multiform_, when in one time more, in another time less
space is transmitted. Again, of multiform motions, there are some in
which the degrees of acceleration and retardation proceed in the same
proportions, which the spaces transmitted have, whether duplicate, or
triplicate, or by whatsoever number multiplied; and others in which it
is otherwise.
Thirdly, from the number of the movents; that is, one motion is made by
one movent only, and another by the concourse of many movents.
Fourthly, from the position of that line in which a body is moved, in
respect of some other line; and from hence one motion is called
_perpendicular_, another _oblique_, another _parallel_.
Fifthly, from the position of the movent in respect of the moved body;
from whence one motion is _pulsion_ or driving, another _traction_ or
drawing. _Pulsion_, when the movent makes the moved body go before it;
and _traction_, when it makes it follow. Again, there are two sorts of
_pulsion_; one, when the motions of the movent and moved body begin both
together, which may be called _trusion_ or _thrusting_ and _vection_;
the other, when the movent is first moved, and afterwards the moved
body, which motion is called _percussion_ or _stroke_.
Sixthly, motion is considered sometimes from the effect only which the
movent works in the moved body, which is usually called _moment_. Now
_moment is the excess of motion which the movent has above the motion or
endeavour of the resisting body_.
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