| | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | It is generally assumed that Newton had a hand in Clarke's end of the correspondence. |
 | | Newton, and after him Clarke, argued that space and time must be absolute (that is, fixed background constants) and in some sense really existent substances in their own right (at least, this was Leibniz's reading of Newton). |
 | | With linear motion, the frame does not matter (as far as the mathematics are concerned, it does not matter if the boat is moving away from the shore, or the shore is moving away from the boat); even linear acceleration (changing velocity but not direction) can be accounted for from various frames of reference. |
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