OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 46073

primum mobile

/ˌpɹaɪməm ˈməʊbɪli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
primer móvil
The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
Have we got among our primum mobiles the force of such elastic vapours as be generated for the purpose out of nonelastic substances, and are not incondensible? A good magazine of v…
[M]otion is transferred and modified; by none of them produced:—in all of them motion finds a channel; in none of them [...] a source. [...] [W]hat are the several sources of motio…
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