found its extreme expression in Newtonian physics. Sir Edmund 
Whittaker writes in Space and Spirit  (p. 86):

     Newtonianism, like Aristotelianism, attempts to 
     understand the world by tracing the connection of events 
     with one another; and this is effected by ordering our 
     experiences according to the category of cause and 
     effect, discovering for every phenomenon its determining 
     agents or antecedents. The affirmation that this 
     connection is all-embracing, that no event happens 
     without a cause, is the postulate  of causality .

     The extreme visual bias of this notion of cause obtrudes 
very incongruously in an electric and simultaneous world. Sir 
Edmund adds (p. 87), by way of contrast: