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Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

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Isaac Newton
Age: 84 †
Born: 1643
Born: January 4
Died: 1727
Died: March 20
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