Philosophers Disputing
Anon
Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery |
Subjects: | Controversy, Physics, Gravity |
A Cartesian and a Newtonian having argued in a Parisian coffee-house to the point of fighting, the Newtonian complained of the blows he had received, only to be given a Newtonian explanation of them by a wag. | |
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