Cause and effect

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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Cause and effect Laws of physics Physics Science

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

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Butterfly effect Interconnectedness of all things Cause and effect

Author

Edward N. Lorenz

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause

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Cause and effect

Author

Herbert Spencer

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Progress: Its Law and Cause

Language

English

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

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Spencer, Herbert. "Progress: Its Law and Cause." Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1861. Originally published in The Westminster Review, Apr. 1857.