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Did Newton ever try to describe electricity? Or, did he for example consider it a secondary or emergent force, unlike the fundamental gravitational force?
gpt
There are a few mentions of electricity and magnetism in his Principia, but they reflect the very rudimentary understanding of the time...mostly regarding attraction and repulsion of charged objects.

For example 
"Therefore the force of gravity towards any whole planet arises 
from, and is compounded of, the forces of gravity towards all its parts. 
Magnetic and electric attractions afford us examples of this ; for all at 
traction towards the whole arises from the attractions towards the several 
parts."