"I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction."
— Isaac Newton

January 1, 1970

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Christiaan Huygens, letter to Fatio de Duillier (11 July 1687), quoted in René Dugas, Mechanics in the seventeenth century (1958), p. 440