Change in position of an object over time; a body is said to be in motion if it changes its position or orientation with respect to its immediate surroundings

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.

2 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 27 cm (4to)

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.

On Aristotle Physics 6 / Simplicius ; translated by David Konstan.

Motion-life, or, The demon of the age and means of its exorcism / by H. Halsted.

Vital motion as a mode of physical motion / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

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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.

On Aristotle Physics 6 / Simplicius ; translated by David Konstan.

Motion-life, or, The demon of the age and means of its exorcism / by H. Halsted.

Vital motion as a mode of physical motion / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

Vital motion as a mode of physical motion / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

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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.

On Aristotle Physics 6 / Simplicius ; translated by David Konstan.

Motion-life, or, The demon of the age and means of its exorcism / by H. Halsted.

Vital motion as a mode of physical motion / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

Vital motion as a mode of physical motion / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

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