Note 27 — Chapter II · ON MAGNITUDE
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George Louis Lesage (1724–1803), well known as the author of one of the few attempts to explain gravitation. (Cf. Leray, Constitution de la Matière, 1869; Kelvin, Proc. R. S. E. VII, p. 577, 1872, etc.; Clerk Maxwell, Phil. Trans. vol. 157, p. 50, 1867; art. “Atom,” Encycl. Brit. 1875, p. 46.)