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I.

Queens Rules

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who had in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON,

in a letter written to Richard Bently while

Newton was working on the

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica