CHAP. VII.

_The physical Causes of the Motions of the Planets. The Excentricities

of their Orbits. The Times in which the Action of Gravity would bring

them to the Sun._ ARCHIMEDES_’s ideal Problem for moving the Earth. The

World not eternal._

[Sidenote: Gravitation and Projection.

Fig. IV.

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