At Paris the universe is seen filled up with ethereal Vortices, while here the same space is occupied with the play of the invisible forces of gravitation.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
He has dangled in the Vortices of human action and human passion-and seemed to come out whole!..."
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
All the cumbrous machinery of imaginary Vortices, assumed without the smallest particle of evidence, appeared to these philosophers a more rational mode of explaining the heavenly motions, than one which involved what seemed to them so great an absurdity.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill