Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664-1753) was a Swiss mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is remembered as a close friend of Isaac Newton, for his role in publicizing the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and for first proposing the push theory of gravity. Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, claims to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (25 December 1642 (OS) – 20 March 1727 (OS) / 4 January 1643 (NS) – 31 March 1727 (NS)) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, philosopher and alchemist. ... Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (July 1, 1646 in Leipzig - November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. ... When Sir Isaac Newton published his Theory of Universal Gravitation, he noted that he could not propose a mechanism by which it worked. ... Gravity is the force of attraction between massive particles. ...
NicolasFatiodeDuillier (1664-1753) was a Genevan mathematician and polymath, who for a time in the 1680s and 1690s, was a close friend of Isaac Newton.
Fatio sought an explanatory theory of gravitation and was the first to propose a so-called "push theory" of gravity: objects of mass emit particles which create pushing forces on other objects (van Lunteren 2002).
Frans van Lunteren [2002]: "NicolasFatiodeDuillier on the mechanical cause of universal gravitation," in: Edwards [2002].
NicolasFatio (1664-1753) conceived the idea that the apparent force of gravitational attraction between material objects might be due to an imbalance of repulsive forces arising from the impacts of tiny rapidly moving corpuscles from the nether regions of space.
Fatio also noted that the lack of appreciable drag on moving objects could be explained by postulating a sufficiently high speed for the corpuscles.
Interestingly, NicolasFatio died when Lesage was 19, and we are told by Bernard Gagnebin (who wrote a historical introduction to Fatio’s paper on gravity when it was finally published in the Notes of the Royal Society in 1948) that “a few years after Fatio’s death” Lesage set about to acquire Fatio’s papers.
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