Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 8 |
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Page 370 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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| Title | Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 8 Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford |
| Editor | Francis Lieber |
| Contributors | Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake |
| Publisher | Mussey & Company, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
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