That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.


Introductory sentence of Siméon-Denis Poisson, translated by Henry Hickman Harte (1842). A Treatise of Mechanics. Longman and co. p. 1.


That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.

That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.

That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.

That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.