1. I. Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Revised English translation, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1960, p. 6.
2. For the much earlier criticism of Newton’s absolute space by Huyghens, Leibniz and Berkeley see M. Jammer, Concepts of Space, Harper Torch-books, New York 1960, Chap. 4 and J. D. North, The Measure of the Universe, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1965, Chap. 16, Sec. 1.
3. E. Mach, Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwicklung, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1889, p. 213, 216, 217.
4. Ibid., p. 218, 485.
5. Ibid., p. 215/216, 217, 219.