It’s meaningful to say absolutely where something is in space, because that’s defined, not with respect to say, where other things are, but with respect to this absolute notion of space, which for Newton was God.
在空间中指出物体的绝对位置并非没有意义 因为这种定义并不是相对于其它一般的事物 而是相对于绝对的宇宙空间而言 在牛顿看来,就是相对上帝而言