“ Of course where there are no parts—where there is absolute Unity— where the tendency to oneness is satisfied—there can be no Attraction:— this has been fully shown, and all Philosophy admits it.”
---E. A. Poe, Eureka.
“ Wither ye rays of gravity may be stopped by reflecting or refracting ym, if so a perpetual motion may be made of these ways.” --
---Isaac Newton, Quaedam Philosophicae, under the head “Gravity”.
On climbing walls :
"Through iteration of the locale of its parts, (be they on the surfaces or in the cup,) the unparticled matter is manifested or re-emerges at the base of the cup as matter as before, and proceeds to drip off the bottom."
Cf. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12764.05768