Newtonianism and the theory of the magnet / R.W. Home.
Abstract:
"Early 18th-century English scientists, we conclude, did not, after all, invariably approach scientific problems from a doctrinaire standpoint dictated by their image of a Newtonian world in which the various natural phenomena were brought about by particles exerting unexplained forces of various kinds on each other across an intervening void."
History of science 15 (1977), p. 252-266