From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi   
      
   On 2025-04-07 12:26:37 +0000, Luigi Fortunati said:   
      
   > Mikko il 06/04/2025 13:50:11 ha scritto:   
   >> Newton's language and the language of Motte's translation are archaic.   
   >> Current language is cleared but it was developed much later.   
   >>   
   >> Inertia is not a force. It is a phenomenon. Force is a number or vector   
   >> that quantifies an interaction.   
   >   
   > Newton, with his archaic language, when he wrote "force" meant force   
      
   That does not make sense. In the midern language the word "force" has   
   a wide variety of different meanings. It had most of these meanings   
   already in 1729 when Motte translated Principia in English. However,   
   one important meaning is newer: a quantity in physics. As Newton did   
   not define the term before its use in the definition of "vis insita"   
   it must be intepreted according to its meaning in ordinary English of   
   the year 1729, or one must interprete the original Latin text according   
   to the common Latin meanings of the year 1726 when the 3rd edition of   
   Principia was published.   
      
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   Mikko   
      
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