...seen are two attributes of the same psychophysical Reality). He quotes Isaac Newton in regard to, "a most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies", which underlies the forces acting upon particles and, through whose vibrations, all sensations are...

...experimental philosophy. Then, however, Newton shows himself to be a mechanic as confused as Swift's Hack: And now we might add something concerning a certain...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater...

...utter "absurdity," and for the rest of his life sought some way around them: he kept searching for a "certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies," and would account for motion, interaction, electrical attraction and repulsion, properties of light,...

...the materialist doctrine of subtilitas in the final paragraph of his Principia (i7i3), describing a "most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies."" In the queries of the third edition of the Opticks (i7i7), he develops more fully the idea of an "Aethereal...

...over short distances are one thing, universal gravitation acting over large distances is another. The "most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies" does not explain gravitational action at a distance, nor does it attempt to. The molecular ether belongs...

...Lettres, 1975). 22. Koyre, Du monde clos a I'univers infini. Newton writes (Mathematical Principles): "Now we might add something concerning a certain most...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous, etc." 23. Henry More agreed: "Space...

...( 1 7 1 3 ) of Principia Mathematica, the final paragraph of the General Scholium of Book 3 reads: And now we might add something concerning a certain...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another . . . and electric bodies operate to greater distances . . . and light is emitted,...

...influence of this somewhat occult tradition that Isaac Newton cautiously invoked the existence of "a subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit, particles of bodies attract one another." The medium is frequently mentioned in Newtonian unpublished...

...heroes, opening with Newton's reference to magnetism, "And now we might add something concerning a most subtle Spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies,"'" and closing with Faraday, 'Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of...

...fundamentally to spirit, and that this extension is constituted by the activity of spirit pervading everywhere. 'And now we might add something concerning a certain...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater...