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Full Idea
Descartes incorporated the conservation of what he called 'quantity of motion', by which he meant mass times speed.
Gist of Idea
Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion'
Source
report of René Descartes (The World [1631]) by David Papineau - Thinking about Consciousness App 2
Book Ref
Papineau,David: 'Thinking about Consciousness' [OUP 2004], p.234
A Reaction
Mass times velocity is now called 'momentum'. Is this the first ever conservation law? There are now lots of them.
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