The motion could be debated by the full Commons early next month.
He also helped to demystify dynamics by showing that the geometric equivalent of motion could be quite familiar and tractable.
Although it is possible that this motion could be defeated, this would be far less embarrassing for Clegg than a vote to drop the bill altogether.
With that, Kepler's laws of planetary motion could be used to calculate the orbits of all the planets out to Saturn, the outermost known planet.
Retrograde planetary motion could be explained by Ptolemaic epicycle causation, for example, but that causal picture was eventually unseated by a shift to heliocentric astronomy.
And could it be trout farming below the dam at Dolores — square plastic-lined pools in which writhing motion could be detected, as if someone were boiling a great stew of fish rather than breeding them?
Newton's equation for the laws of motion could be solved as above, by integrating twice with respect to time, because time is the only variable term within the function x″.
But, on writing the essay for publication, Poincaré discovered that another result in it was wrong, and in putting that right he discovered that the motion could be chaotic.
During the next century, mathematicians showed that Newton's laws of motion could be rewritten in a similar vein: an orbiting planet or a hurtling cannonball moves as though it were trying to minimize a more abstract quantity called "action".
Astronomers remarked that the eccentric orbit representing the Sun's annual motion could be replaced by a pair of circles, a deferent centred on the Earth and an epicycle the centre of which moved along the circumference of the deferent.
Only those motions differing from a shared common motion could be seen as moving.
