Without god: Gravity as a relational quality of matter in newton’s treatise

Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion Descartes and Beyond: Descartes and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 80-100

  Schliesser, Eric ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203833384     Document Type: Chapter

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