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Christian Huygens ( April 14, 1629 --
July 8, 1695)
published in 1690 Discours de la cause de la
pesanteur ("Discourse on the Cause of Gravity", dating at least
to 1669) proposing a mechanical explanation of gravity based on
Cartesian vortices.
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