Kepler's concept of an attractive force from the sun - a 'virtue'. His idea of 'gravity' by which he hoped to account for his elliptical planetary orbits was to some extent analogous to magnetism. From Johannnes Kepler "Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae"

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