 Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate...  Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia - Page 61886Full view - About this book
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and .external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year, &c. II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to any thing external, remains always similar... | |
 | James Ryan - Astronomy - 1827 - 408 pages
...any thing external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by. the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as an hour, a day, a month,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external measure of duration, whether accurate or not, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year, &c. II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to any thing external, remains always similar... | |
 | James Ferdinand Mallinckrodt - American wit and humor - 1882 - 130 pages
...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 of duration by the means of motion, which iicommonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, :i month,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 540 pages
...which belongs to Immensity, and is the mere possibility of space or spaces parent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of trne time." . . . "Absolute space, in its own... | |
 | George David Birkhoff - Relativity (Physics). - 1925 - 204 pages
...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 of duration by means of motion. . . . II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1927 - 666 pages
...relative, apparent and common time is some sensible and external ' measure of duration by means ot motion, which is commonly used instead of true time, such as an hour, a day, a month, a year. "II. Absolute space, in its own nature, and without regard to anything external, remains always similar... | |
 | History of Science Society - Physicists - 1928 - 392 pages
...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 of duration by means of motion "II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - Physics - 1928 - 266 pages
...anything external, and by another name is called duration : relative, apparent, and common time is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time ; such as an hour, a day, a month,... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month,... | |
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