[VO]:Re: A short rant

2006-10-21 Thread RC Macaulay
Harry Veeder wrote, Though Huygens rejected Newton's theory of universal gravitation because it required action-at-a-distance, his own mechanistic account failed to explain satisfactorily how subtle vortical-matter transferred centripetal conatus to ordinary matter." Richard wrote, A

Re: [VO]:Re: A short rant

2006-10-21 Thread thomas malloy
RC Macaulay wrote: Harry Veeder wrote, Though Huygens rejected Newton's theory of universal gravitation because it required action-at-a-distance, his own mechanistic account failed to explain satisfactorily how subtle vortical-matter transferred centripetal conatus to ordinary matter.

[VO]:Re: A short rant

2006-10-20 Thread RC Macaulay
Harry Veeder wrote, Though Huygens rejected Newton's theory of universalgravitation because it required action-at-a-distance, his own mechanisticaccount failed to explain satisfactorily how subtle vortical-mattertransferred centripetal conatus to ordinary matter." Howdy Harry, A further

Re: [VO]:Re: A short rant

2006-10-20 Thread thomas malloy
RC Macaulay wrote: Harry Veeder wrote, Though Huygens rejected Newton's theory of universal gravitation because it required action-at-a-distance, his own mechanistic account failed to explain satisfactorily how subtle vortical-matter transferred centripetal conatus to ordinary matter.