...components, as well as the involvement of repulsive forces. He stated lQuery 31, Book 3 of Opticks\ : "Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance . . . upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of Nature? For it is well known...

...perfecter of the great world machine, we should remember that Newton (in his Opticks) also wondered: "Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance?"15 And in his great Principia, Newton wrote of a "certain most subtle spirit which pervades...

...space and suggested that such would be important in holding the smallest parts of materials together: "Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance ..." (1730/1979); Faraday and Maxwell were to see fields to be as real as atoms (1844); Planck and...

...suggested that some such forces would be important in holding the smallest parts of materials together: "Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance . . ." (1730/1979), Opticlcs, (4th edition), Quest, 31, London (1730), reprinted New York (1979), Dover,...

...problem was left incomplete. Newton raised the issue in "Query 31" of his Opticks, in which he stated: "Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers,...Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance", but then left this as a proposition for the engagement of his successors. Thackray considers the ways...

...speculates on the role of this "medium" in remote (or subliminal) relations between corpuscular bodies: "Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers,...Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance ... ? For it's well known that bodies act upon one another by Attractions of Gravity, Magnetism, and...

...matter of what kind foever, fo far as experience reaches, feem to be endued ; and whereby they acl upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature. Such is firft that power whereby the minute particles of matter do in fome circumftances tend towards...

...unifying concepts in physics. He places atoms in the realm of another grand concept, that of forces: "Have not the small particles of Bodies certain Powers,...Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them [as particles], but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phaenomena of Nature?"...

...Particles of Bodies" do not have "certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which" matter affects light, "but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phaenomena of Nature," instancing gravity, magnetism, and electricity as making "it not improbable...

...than those of light, and in the final Query 31 he stated that "the small Particles of Bodies [have] certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance." Few took the speculative form of these statements and the phenomenalist refrains seriously, and their...