The remarkable part of this “strange story” is the fact that the material cause for the force of gravity was discovered in 1747, shortly after Newton and his followers gave up the search! A young Swiss Scientist, George-Louis Le Sage (1724-1803), mathematically worked out how the inverse square law is explained in a material world where the motion of bodies determined how the force of gravity acted on those material bodies. Unfortunately, Le Sage’ explanation of the cause of gravity is, even today, still trying to get a hearing!
