Here is a Latin to English translation as given by Marshall Clagett:
In 1554, Francesco Maurolico clarifies the Latin term momentum in the work Prologi sive sermones. That said, why was the word momentum chosen for the translation? One clue, according to Treccani, is that momento in Medieval Italy, the place the early translators lived, in a transferred sense meant both a "moment of time" and a "moment of weight" (a small amount of weight that turns the scale). The same term is kept in a 1501 translation by Giorgio Valla, and subsequently by Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Guidobaldo del Monte, Adriaan van Roomen, Florence Rivault, Francesco Buonamici, Marin Mersenne, and Galileo Galilei. Īround 1450, Jacobus Cremonensis translates ῥοπή in similar texts into the Latin term momentum ( lit. The term ῥοπή is transliterated into ropen. In 1269, William of Moerbeke translates various works of Archimedes and Eutocious into Latin. Moreover, in extant texts such as The Method of Mechanical Theorems, moments are used to infer the center of gravity, area, and volume of geometric figures. In particular, in extant works attributed to Archimedes, the moment is pointed out in phrasings like: The context of these works is mechanics and geometry involving the lever. "inclination") and composites like ἰσόρροπα ( isorropa, lit. In works believed to stem from Ancient Greece, the concept of a moment is alluded to by the word ῥοπή ( rhopḗ, lit. This technique applies to small objects such as molecules, īut has also been applied to the universe itself, being for example the technique employed by the WMAP and Planck experiments to analyze the cosmic microwave background radiation. Measurements pertaining to multipole moments may be taken and used to infer properties of the underlying distribution.
(such as force or electrical charge) at that point:
Phrase moment of truth first recorded 1932 in Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon," from Spanish el momento de la verdad, the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight.In its most basic form, a moment is the product of the distance to a point, raised to a power, and a physical quantity In for the moment "temporarily, so far as the near future is concerned" (1883) it means "the present time." Phrase never a dull moment is attested by 1885 (Jerome K. Meaning "opportunity" (as in seize the moment) is from 1781. The sense of "notable importance, 'weight,' value, consequence" is attested in English from 1520s. In careful use, a moment has duration, an instant does not. Some (but not OED) explain the sense evolution of the Latin word by notion of a particle so small it would just "move" the pointer of a scale, which led to the transferred sense of "minute time division." Late 14c., "very brief portion of time, instant," in moment of time, from Old French moment (12c.) "moment, minute importance, weight, value" and directly from Latin momentum "movement, motion moving power alteration, change " also "short time, instant" (also source of Spanish, Italian momento), contraction of *movimentum, from movere "to move" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away").
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