...series of objects leaves upon the memory, and of which we are certain the existence has been successive. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to any thing external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent,...

...sufficient to hinder the descent of the body. SECT. III.— OF TIME, SPACE, PLACE, AND MOTION. Scholium I. Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself,...from its own nature, flows equably, without regard to any thing external, and, by another name, is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time,...

...Newton distinguished time according as it was absolute or apparent time, in the following words : — ' Absolute, true, and mathematical time of itself and...anything external, and by another name is called duration ; relative, apparent and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration by the means...

...absolute or apparent time, in the following ' A White, true, and mathematical time of itself and tVow its own nature, flows equably without regard to anything...external, and by another name is called duration; rvlutius apparent and common time, is some sensible and eMwrnl luottMuro of duration by the means of...

...of it as a fluent which has no variable fluxion, the only independent variable which " flows equally without regard to anything external and by another name is called Duration." * Without pausing to choose between these conceptions, or to trace the genesis of the abstraction and...

...of it as a fluent which has no variable fluxion, the only independent variable which "flows equally without regard to anything external and by another name is called Duration." * Without pausing to choose between these conceptions, or to trace the genesis of the abstraction and...

...LIFE, AND TRIGONOMETRY OF MORALS. "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from itsown nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration; relative, apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure...

...dependent on locality, I will quote on this point but one authority, the great Sir Isaac Newton. " Absolute true and mathematical time of itself, and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to anything external." Our finite minds are incapable of understanding fully...

...dependent on locality, and I will quote on this point but one authority, the great Sir Isaac Newton. " Absolute true and mathematical time of itself, and from its own nature, flows equally without regard to anything external." Our finite minds are incapable of understanding fully...

...distinctions clearly intelligible and comprehensible.1 1 "Absolute, true, and mathematical time," says Newton, "of itself and from its own nature, flows equably,...anything external, and by another name is called duration ; relative, apThere is a clear distinction between the conception of Irfinity proper as such and that...