Sentence examples for motion in respect of from inspiring English sources

Now of the three kinds of motion that there are-motion in respect of magnitude, motion in respect of affection, and motion in respect of place-it is this last, which we call locomotion, that must be primary.

The characteristics of the stars which move with a circular motion, in respect of substance and shape, movement and order, have now been sufficiently explained.

Above all it is plain that this motion, motion in respect of place, is what is in the strictest sense produced by that which moves itself; but it is the self-movent that we declare to be the first principle of things that are moved and impart motion and the primary source to which things that are in motion are to be referred.

Yet he does not propose Aristotle's definition of time as the number of motion in respect of before and after.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, this intuitive view of relational change was often discussed in a connection with an authoritative passage from the Physics: "There is no motion in respect of relation: for it may happen that when one correlative changes, the other can truly be said not to change at all, so that in these cases the motion is accidental" (V, 2, 225b11-13).

Ismael Boulliau accepted elliptical orbits but replaced Kepler's area law with uniform motion in respect to the empty focus of the ellipse, while Seth Ward used an elliptical orbit with motions defined by an equant.

Evan claims we have failed to deliver most of what the motion called for in respect of competition and marketisation.

Each of them has within itself a principle of motion and of stationariness (in respect of place, or of growth and decrease, or by way of alteration).

Neither I, nor West, despite his bruising experience, has any complaint against Nick Clegg or Paul Burstow in respect of these motions and indeed many delegates are well pleased with the way the Deputy Prime Minister has increasingly identified differences with the Conservatives within the coalition, not least on civil liberties matters in the response to the riots.

Nor does eternal movement, if there be such, exist potentially; and, if there is an eternal mobile, it is not in motion in virtue of a potentiality, except in respect of 'whence' and 'whither' (there is nothing to prevent its having matter which makes it capable of movement in various directions).

These atoms were indivisible and uniform, of various sizes and shapes, and capable only of change in respect of position and motion, but not intrinsic qualities.