Berkeley and Newton on gravity in siris

Timo Airaksinen

pp. 87-106

in: Silvia Parigi (ed), George Berkeley, Berlin, Springer, 2011

Abstract

Sir Isaac Newton speculates about aether, refraction of light, and the nature of gravity in his letters and in Opticks (1704). George Berkeley says in Siris (1744) that "[i]t is the opinion of Sir Isaac Newton" that aether may explain gravity (S #223).

Cited authors

Berkeley George

Newton Isaac