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Mass as a Measure of Inertia
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Mass as a Measure of Inertia

  • W. C. BAKER1 

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CAN any of your readers enlighten me as to the authorship of the definition, “The mass of a body is the dynamical measure of its inertia”? I am under the impression that it is due to Clerk Maxwell, but have not been able to find where it occurs. I should be grateful for information as to where to look for it.

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BAKER, W. Mass as a Measure of Inertia . Nature 92, 268 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092268c0

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