René Descartes: It was left up to Newton to compute the detailed implications of the vortex-theory ... and the result demolished the fou

It was left up to Newton to compute the detailed implications of the vortex-theo — René Descartes

It was left up to Newton to compute the detailed implications of the vortex-theory ... and the result demolished the foundations of Descartes' cosmology.

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