Abstract
About 1668 Newton composed a metaphysical treatise now entitled De Gravitatione et Aequipondio Fluidorum.1 Despite its stated subject, the work develops an account of the nature of space, time, matter and motion. Newton’s immedicate motivation is a desire to refute what are for him the chief assumptions of Descartes’ natural philosophy. He consequently embarks on an examination of the central doctrines of the latter’s Principia Philosophiae. The result is the systematic establishment in De Gravitatione of the basic principles of Newton’s own metaphysics of nature.
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