In this article, we document how, in the public arena, British readers of the first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687) tried to make sense of the relation between gravity, matter, and divine and natural causation—an issue on which Newton had remained entirely silent in the first edition of the Principia. We show that readers attached new meanings to the Principia so that parts of it migrated to a different intellectual debate. It will be shown that one particular result Newton obtained in the Principia, namely the rejection of a vacuum in Corollary 3 to Proposition 6 in Book 3, was the most important locus in debates on the relation between gravity, matter, and causation.

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第一版牛顿原理关于重力、物质以及神圣与自然因果关系的读者：英国公开辩论，1687-1713

在这篇文章中，我们记录了艾萨克·牛顿 (Isaac Newton) 的《自然哲学》 ( Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica，1687 年)第一版的英国读者如何在公共领域试图理解重力、物质以及神圣和自然因果关系之间的关系——这是牛顿在第一版《原理》中一直保持沉默。我们展示了读者为《原理》赋予了新的含义，从而使其部分内容迁移到了不同​​的知识辩论中。将证明牛顿在《原理》中获得的一个特定结果，即第三册中命题 6 的推论 3 中的真空拒绝，是最重要的轨迹 在关于引力、物质和因果关系的辩论中。