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One of the basic features of any body is its weight—and already the earliest civilizations had means to determine that. The oldest scales were found in Egyptian tombs and are more than five thousand years old. Lifting objects up from the surface of the Earth required a different amount of force for different objects, so that the identification of weight was quite straightforward. The mass of a body, more specifically its inertial mass, is a more subtle concept: it specifies its resistance to being set in motion.
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Satz, H. (2013). The Visions of an Accelerating Observer. In: Ultimate Horizons. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41657-6_4
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