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I AM pleased to see that Dr. Lodge has adopted my suggestion made in the Engineer about four years ago of using the term inertia for the quantity mass-acceleration. In making the suggestion I considered that I merely asked a return to the meaning implied by Newton in the phrase “vis inertiœ”.“
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LOUSLEY, E. Mass and Inertia. Nature 39, 413 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039413b0
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