Assertion: newton's body | /r/CapableOf | persevere in its state
Facets:
value: except insofar
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Only the first of the three laws Newton gives in the Principia corresponds to any of these principles, and even the statement of it is distinctly different: Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed.