THEOLOGICAL VITALISM. “For Isaac Newton, active principles, originating in God, transformed a mechanical universe of mere matter into a dynamic, living one. With gravity as the reigning model, Newton cast these principles not as forms of matter, but as a kind of force or subtle fluid.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022