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Discours de la cause de la pesanteur

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  • Christiaan Huygens
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    …published in 1690 in his Discours de la cause de la pesanteur (“Discourse on the Cause of Gravity”), though dating at least to 1669, included a mechanical explanation of gravity based on Cartesian vortices. Huygens’ Traité de la Lumière (Treatise on Light), already largely completed by 1678, was also published…

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