Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Nature

What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation…

Quote byIsaac Barrow · 1630–1677

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Geometrical Lectures (1735).

English (original)

What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the motive Force. ...But because the Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time, we must say something concerning its Nature.

— Isaac Barrow

More from Isaac Barrow