“That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.”
body: an object that is separate from other objects（独立于其他物体之外的）物体
heavenly/celestial bodies, such as the moon, the planets, and the stars
月球、行星和恒星等天体
“在我看来，认为一个物体能在真空中、不借助任何媒介就对另一个物体产生远距离作用，是一种极其荒谬的想法；我相信，凡是具备正常思考能力的人，都不会接受这种观点。”
不借助其他物体的调解