Journey to the Invisible Planet
by Alan Bellows from Damn Interesting on (#6C5Y9)
Journey to the Invisible Planet:
In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific theory that was gaining currency in Europe: universal gravitation. In correspondence with a scientific contemporary, Newton complained that it was an absurdity" to suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum." The scientist [...]