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François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques

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1 II | are the only people upon earth that have no priests. Wouldst 2 IV | having brought down upon earth the so much boasted golden 3 VIII| are the only people upon earth who have been able to prescribe 4 XII | had been detached from the earth.~In a word, no one before 5 XII | which operates between the earth and heavy bodies, between 6 XII | towards the centre of the earth, or must be reciprocally 7 XII | falling, draw towards the earth, the stronger they will 8 XII | It is probable that the earth has a true attractive power.~ 9 XIV | Paris you imagine that the earth is shaped like a melon, 10 XIV | having demonstrated the earth's motion.~At last Descartes 11 XV | towards the surface of the earth.~The system of Descartes, 12 XV | accelerated bodies on the earth, the revolution of the planets 13 XV | more rapid than that of the earth; or, in case its velocity 14 XV | greater than that of the earth, its centrifugal force must 15 XV | impel all bodies towards the earth. This is the cause of gravity, 16 XV | pretended little vortex of the earth, it is demonstrated that 17 XV | demonstrated, that if the earth swims in a fluid, its density 18 XV | be equal to that of the earth; and in case its density 19 XV | revolution of the fluid of the earth, as the revolution of Jupiter 20 XV | with respect to that of the earth. He proves, that as the 21 XV | in their Perihelia; the earth's velocity, for instance, 22 XV | it is even then that the earth's motion is slower.~He proves 23 XV | and that of gravity on the earth. But being retired in 1666, 24 XV | distance from the centre of the earth, or on the summits of the 25 XV | which should fall upon the earth from a moderate height, 26 XV | wanted but the measure of the earth, and the distance of the 27 XV | made the measure of the earth agree, anyhow, with his 28 XV | Picard had measured the earth exactly, by tracing that 29 XV | The circumference of the earth is 123,249,600 feet. This, 30 XV | The instant we know the earth's circumference, and the 31 XV | it is evident that as the earth is sixty semi-diameters 32 XV | necessarily fall (on the earth) fifteen feet in the first 33 XV | what causes gravity on earth, and keeps the moon in its 34 XV | the moon gravitates on the earth, which is the centre of 35 XV | is demonstrated that the earth and the moon gravitate on 36 XV | it is certain that the earth gravitates also towards 37 XV | years, and those of the earth in about twenty-six thousand. 38 XV | heavy bodies fall on the earth according to the proportion 39 XVI | transmitted from the sun to the earth in about seven minutes through 40 XVI | those we discern upon the earth.~But Sir Isaac has shown 41 XVII| generation of men lives upon the earth. The Egyptians first employed 42 XVII| ground.~You know that the earth, besides its annual motion 43 XVII| such a revolution in the earth, which was supposed to be 44 XVII| revolution of the poles of the earth, which is performed in twenty-five 45 XVII| determining the figure of the earth, has very happily explained 46 XIX | Vanbrugh, has these lines:~"Earth lie light on him, for he 47 XXII| light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repairs


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