Descartes was liable to be misled by too easy an acceptance of data that had been handed down by scholastic writers. ...two grand Aristotelian principlesa vacuum is impossiblethere could be no such thing as attraction, no such thing as action at a distance.the planets were caught each in its own whirlpoolall similarly caught in a larger whirlpool, which had the sun as its centre... Gravity itself was the result of these whirlpools
René Descartes