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1 XII | between the earth and heavy bodies, between the moon and the 2 XII | place he says, either heavy bodies must be carried towards 3 XII | evident that the nearer bodies, in their falling, draw 4 XIII| the organisation of our bodies. But I confess that it is 5 XIII| think perpetually than that bodies should be for ever in motion."~ 6 XIII| extension and solidity in bodies, and that there they can 7 XV | those causes which make all bodies here below descend towards 8 XV | the falling of accelerated bodies on the earth, the revolution 9 XV | impulsion; therefore all those bodies must be impelled. But by 10 XV | and consequently impel all bodies towards the earth. This 11 XV | density be the same, all the bodies we endeavour to move must 12 XV | motion of all celestial bodies, and that of gravity on 13 XV | in our hemisphere, those bodies might descend, their fall 14 XV | power which causes heavy bodies to descend, and is the same 15 XV | Now if the law by which bodies gravitate and attract one 16 XV | sixty multiplied by fifteen. Bodies, therefore, gravitate in 17 XV | globe.~Finally as in all bodies re-action is equal to action, 18 XV | the quantity of matter in bodies, a truth, which Sir Isaac 19 XV | proves that comets are solid bodies which move in the sphere 20 XV | comets are hard, opaque bodies; for it descended so near 21 XV | these globes. For in case bodies attract one another in proportion 22 XV | knowing that there is in all bodies a central force, which acts 23 XV | Isaac rejoin, "that all bodies gravitate towards one another 24 XV | phenomenon of gravity. For heavy bodies fall on the earth according 25 XV | that acted upon all those bodies, it would either increase 26 XV | direction. Now, not one of those bodies ever has a single degree 27 XVI | laws by which the celestial bodies move and the manner how 28 XVI | existence has been given to bodies in the air-pump. By the 29 XVI | assistance of telescopes bodies have been brought nearer 30 XVI | against the solid parts of bodies, that bodies are not transparent 31 XVI | solid parts of bodies, that bodies are not transparent when 32 XVI | nothing but the disposition of bodies to reflect the rays of a 33 XVI | astonished philosophers that bodies are opaque for no other 34 XVI | examining the vast porosity of bodies, every particle having its 35 XVI | proportion in which light acts on bodies and bodies act on light.~ 36 XVI | light acts on bodies and bodies act on light.~He saw light 37 XXIV| ages and the most learned bodies, is, to argue and debate