God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable… — Isaac Newton
God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704
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Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.
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Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.
