The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)
Thomas Hobbes · en
Coroll. If the impetus be the same in every point, any strait line
representing it may be taken for the measure of time: and the
quicknesses or impetus applied ordinately to any strait line making an
angle with it, and representing the way of the body's motion, will
design a parallelogram which shall represent the velocity of the whole
motion. But if the impetus or quickness of motion begin from rest and
increase uniformly, that is, in the same proportion continually with the
times which are passed, the whole velocity of the motion shall be
represented by a triangle, one side whereof is the whole time, and the
other the greatest impetus acquired in that time; or else by a
parallelogram, one of whose sides is the whole time of motion, and the
other, half the greatest impetus; or lastly, by a parallelogram having
for one side a mean proportional between the whole time and the half of
that time, and for the other side the half of the greatest impetus. For
both these parallelograms are equal to one another, and severally equal
to the triangle which is made of the whole line of time, and of the
greatest acquired impetus; as is demonstrated in the elements of
geometry.
[Sidenote: In all motion, the lengths which are passed through are to
one another, as the products made by the impetus multiplied
into time.]
2. In all uniform motions the lengths which are transmitted are to one
another, as the product of the mean impetus multiplied into its time, to
the product of the mean impetus multiplied also into its time.