"Are not the rays of Light very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances? ... Pellucid Substances act upon Rays of Light at a distance in refracting, reflecting, and inflecting them, and the Rays mutually agitate the Parts of those Substances at a distance for heating them; and this Action and Re-action at a distance very much resembles an attractive Force between Bodies."
Opticks

January 1, 1970

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Query 29 (4th ed. 1730)

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