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The analysis thus far has shown that ‘absolute space’ in Newton’s theory refers not merely to an ‘inertial frame of reference’ but to a physical reality, which is also responsible — as a vacuum — for the ‘density’ of various materials and for the lack of resistance in regions distant from the earth. The presupposition of this theory has turned out to be the assumption that the material world is composed of equal particles whose essential properties belong to them independently of the existence of a world system.
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Freudenthal, G. (1986). Leibniz’s Foundations of Dynamics. In: Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4500-5_3
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