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iique Direction, the Change will beobliquely; but still the Acceleration,Retardation or Obliquity, will be inProportion to die new impressedForce. This Law will be more strict-ly demonstrated in Theorem ist. orcompound Motion.

SCHOLIUM i.

Since a Body can neither give nosdestroy its own Motion, nor alterits Celerity, the Momentum, or Forcewherewith it moves, must still be e~qual to the moving Force impressed >and since Extension or Figure, canno way affect Motion, in pure Space,there is nothing in Bodies, that canrequire different Forces, to movethem with equal Celerities, but theirdifferent Quantities of Matter.

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