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Lemma — Part II

Latin

Corpus motum vel quiescens ad motum vel quietem determinari debuit ab alio corpore quod etiam ad motum vel quietem determinatum fuit ab alio et illud iterum ab alio et sic in infinitum.

English (Elwes 1883)

A body in motion or at rest must be determined to motion or rest by another body, which other body has been determined to motion or rest by a third body, and that third again by a fourth, and so on to infinity.

Modern English

A body in motion or at rest must have been determined to that motion or rest by another body, which was itself determined to motion or rest by another, and that one by yet another, and so on to infinity.

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