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I doubt it ... but that's a really good question ... to answer it you'd need to look at at least a century and a half of science fiction. I don't think Jules Verne thought of it (haven't read all his stuff), but it might have been Aristotle for all I know.
Yeah seems like something Clarke, Heinlein or Asimov could've come up with. But also seems like an idea that could go back to Newton's time.