"It is a property of motion, that the parts, which retain given positions to their wholes, do partake of the motions of those wholes. For all the parts of revolving bodies endeavour to recede from the axis of motion; and the impetus of bodies moving forward, arises from the joint impetus of all the parts. Therefore, if surrounding bodies are moved, those that are relatively at rest within them, will partake of their motion. Upon which account, the true and absolute motion of a body cannot be determined by the translation of it from those which only seem to rest; for the external bodies ought not only to appear at rest, but to be really at rest. For otherwise, all included bodies, beside their translation from near the surrounding ones, partake likewise of their true motions; and though that translation were not made they would not be really at rest, but only seem to be so. For the surrounding bodies stand in the like relation to the surrounded as the exterior part of a whole does to the interior, or as the shell does to the kernel; but, if the shell moves, the kernel will also move, as being part of the whole, without any removal from near the shell."
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
' (English: The Mathematical Principles of — often referred to as simply the Principia) is a famous book by Isaac Newton. The book established the foundations of classical mechanics and gives the physics and mathematics of and his based on . The Principia is written in Latin and comprises three volumes. The 1st edition was published in 1687 with a 2nd edition in 1713 and a 3rd edition in 1726.
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