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if it.is hud that Sir Ifsac Newtonand the prelud; mathematicianKive o he red to demon (irate a vacutun ; we mud re member, thaty * ' '*• 4. A a * -ft - 4.- A J£ r c a t mad i e matieinns, ev c n a ft e rtbiey had long admitted the fameas uemonOration,have rejected that ■hypothdh as abfurd and erroneous.-The great Leibnitz (who is ef-teemed a rival of Sir Ifaac NewClton in mathematical learn In p*•0 '' _ CUK..Odepth of penetration) afTerts, thattoe opinion of the exifteisce of avacuum is only the effect ofanoverheated, if not a d borderedimagination. « All tiiefe, fav’tthe, who arc for the vacuum, are are* 1 m.sen away by imagination rather than real am When I was younp,I gave alio into the notion of a vacuum, and atom's, but reafon hasUfldf ce \ ved me. Its i rn a tf i n at ion•fl
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Pennsylvania Magazine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Mon, Apr 01, 1776

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