Antinewtonianismus.[356] By Caelestino Cominale,[357] M.D. Naples, 1754
and 1756, 2 vols. 4to.
The first volume upsets the theory of light; the second vacuum, vis
inertiae, gravitation, and attraction. I confess I never attempted these big
Latin volumes, numbering 450 closely-printed quarto pages. The man who
slays Newton in a pamphlet is the man for me. But I will lend them to
anybody who will give security, himself in L500, and two sureties in L250
each, that he will read them through, and give a full abstract; and I will
not exact security for their return. I have never seen any mention of this
book: it has a printer, but not a publisher, as happens with so many
unrecorded books.
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