As A Blind Man Has No Idea

That One Body May Act Upon Another At A Distance Through A Vacuum, Without The Mediation Of Any Thing Else, By And Through Which Their Action And Force May Be Conveyed From One To Another, Is To Me So Great An Absurdity, That I Believe No Man, Who Has In Philosophical Matters A Compentent Faculty Of Thinking, Can Ever Fall Into It.

It Is The Weight, Not Numbers Of Experiments That Is To Be Regarded.

Do Not Bodies And Light Act Mutually Upon One Another; That Is To Say, Bodies Upon Light In Emitting, Reflecting, Refracting And Inflecting It, And Light Upon Bodies For Heating Them, And Putting Their Parts Into A Vibrating Motion Wherein Heat Consists?

Qu. 31. Have Not The Small Particles Of Bodies Certain Powers, Virtues Or Forces, By Which They Act At A Distance, Not Only Upon The Rays Of Light For Reflecting, Refracting And Reflecting Them, But Also Upon One Another For Producing A Great Part Of The Phænomena Of Nature?

A Cylinder Of Air Reaching To The Top Of The Atmosphere Is Of Equal Weight With A Cylinder Of Water About 33 Feet High.