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1 II | who created thy body gives motion to this earthly tabernacle. 2 XII | of the air, the laws of motion, light, the number of our 3 XIII| bodies should be for ever in motion."~With regard to myself, 4 XIII| they can have nothing but motion and figure. Now motion, 5 XIII| but motion and figure. Now motion, figure, extension and solidity 6 XIV | demonstrated the earth's motion.~At last Descartes was snatched 7 XIV | in matter, in the laws of motion, and in the nature of light. 8 XV | their axis, all this is mere motion. Now motion cannot perhaps 9 XV | this is mere motion. Now motion cannot perhaps be conceived 10 XV | depends on this diurnal motion; for, say these, the velocity 11 XV | demonstrated that it must lose its motion by insensible degrees; it 12 XV | ought to have a greater motion; and yet it is even then 13 XV | even then that the earth's motion is slower.~He proves that 14 XV | time, is the cause of the motion of all celestial bodies, 15 XV | orbit, and determines its motion? But in case the moon obeys 16 XV | that the moon in its mean motion makes an hundred and fourscore 17 XV | centre of its particular motion, it is demonstrated that 18 XV | the centre of their annual motion.~The rest of the planets 19 XV | ever has a single degree of motion or velocity, or has any 20 XV | first declared that the motion of the arm is owing to the 21 XVII| earth, besides its annual motion which carries it round the 22 XVII| have a very slow retrograde motion from east to west, whence 23 XVII| Philosophers ascribed this motion to the stars; for in those 24 XVII| this heaven a particular motion by which it was carried