The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11) — Thomas Hobbes — John Shaqi
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)
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1. The velocity of any body, in what time soever it be computed, is that
which is made of the multiplication of the impetus, or quickness of
its motion into the time.—2-5. In all motion, the lengths which are
passed through are to one another, as the products made by the
impetus multiplied into the time.—6. If two bodies be moved with
uniform motion through two lengths, the proportion of those lengths
to one another will be compounded of the proportions of time to
time, and impetus to impetus, directly taken.—7. If two bodies pass
through two lengths with uniform motion, the proportion of their
times to one another will be compounded of the proportions of length
to length, and impetus to impetus reciprocally taken; also the
proportion of their impetus to one another will be compounded of the
proportions of length to length, and time to time reciprocally
taken.—8. If a body be carried on with uniform motion by two movents
together, which meet in an angle, the line by which it passes will
be a strait line, subtending the complement of that angle to two
right angles.—9, &c. If a body be carried by two movents together,
one of them being moved with uniform, the other with accelerated
motion, and the proportion of their lengths to their times being
explicable in numbers, how to find out what line that body
describes.
[Sidenote: The velocity of any body, in what time soever it be computed,
is that which is made of the multiplication of the impetus or
quickness of its motion into the time.]
1. The velocity of any body, in whatsoever time it be moved, has its
quantity determined by the sum of all the several quicknesses or
impetus, which it hath in the several points of the time of the body's
motion. For seeing velocity, (by the definition of it, chap, VIII, art.
15) is that power by which a body can in a certain time pass through a
certain length; and quickness of motion or impetus, (by chap. XV, art.
2, num. 2) is velocity taken in one point of time only, all the impetus,
together taken in all the points of time, will be the same thing with
the mean impetus multiplied into the whole time, or which is all one,
will be the velocity of the whole motion.