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Full Idea
The attractions of the bodies must be reckoned by assigning proper forces to their individual particles and then taking the sums of those forces.
Gist of Idea
An attraction of a body is the sum of the forces of their particles
Source
Isaac Newton (Principia Mathematica [1687], 1.II.Schol)
Book Ref
Newton,Isaac: 'Philosophical Writings' [CUP 2004], p.86
A Reaction
This is using the parts of bodies to give fundamental explanations, rather than invoking substantial forms. The parts need not be atoms.
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |
16707 | Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman] |
16731 | Colours arise from the rarity, density and mixture of matter [Digby] |
15972 | The corpuscular theory allows motion, but does not include forces between the particles [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
17020 | An attraction of a body is the sum of the forces of their particles [Newton] |
16592 | Atomism is the commonest version of corpuscularianism, but isn't required by it [Pasnau] |
16750 | If there are just arrangements of corpuscles, where are the boundaries between substances? [Pasnau] |