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Motion

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  • Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.
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    Discours sur les loix de la communication du mouvement : qui a merité les Eloges de l'Academie Royale des Sciences aux années 1724. & 1726. & qui a concouru à l'occasion des Prix distribuez dans lesdites années / par Jean Bernoulli.

    Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748. | Date: 1727
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    On Aristotle Physics 6 / Simplicius ; translated by David Konstan.

    Simplicius. | Date: 1989
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    An essay on Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam.

    Ludlam, William, 1717-1788. | Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
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    Reflections on the communication of motion by impact and gravity. By the Rev. Isaac Milner, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. Read at the Royal Society, Feb. 26, 1778.

    Milner, Isaac, 1750-1820. | Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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    Motion-life, or, The demon of the age and means of its exorcism / by H. Halsted.

    Halsted, H. | Date: 1856
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