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"Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and res..." — Isaac Newton
Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
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