Brewer's: Newtonian Philosophy

The astronomical system at present received, together with that of universal gravitation. So called after Sir Isaac Newton, who established the former and discovered the latter. (See Apple.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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