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Newton's concepts of "absolute space," "absolute time," and "absolute motion" met with serious objections from such philosophical contemporaries as Huygens, Leibniz, and Berkeley.
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general orbital motion, least quam proxime, early computational method, centripetal acceleration field, parabolic measure, artisanal sense, emanative effect, agreeing measurements, natura acidorum, aethereal vibrations, natures obvious laws, accelerative quantity, light discoursed, light corpuscles, orbital curve, aequipondio fluidorum, quadratura curvarum, curvature method, mean solar distances, vis insita, universal gravity, revised diagram, absolute rotation, optical papers, vis inertiae
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Isaac Newton, Newton's Principia, Bernard Cohen, Rupert Hall, Royal Society, New York, Unpublished Scientific Papers, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press, General Scholium, Howard Stein, Christiaan Huygens, Faces of Genius, University of California Press, Acta Eruditorum, Curtis Wilson, Human Understanding, Robert Boyle, Samuel Clarke, Bertoloni Meli, Oxford University Press, Robert Hooke, Fatio de Duillier, History of Science, Karin Figala
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