Letter

 1 XII|           heavy bodies, between the moon and the ocean, between the
 2 XIV|           it is the pressure of the moon that causes the tides; but
 3 XIV|         that gravitates towards the moon; so that when you think
 4 XIV|             when you think that the moon should make it flood with
 5 XIV|           this, it is necessary the moon and the tides should have
 6 XV |         power extend as high as the moon? And in case its influence
 7 XV |             motion? But in case the moon obeys this principle (whatever
 8 XV |          fall from the orbit of the moon, would descend. To find
 9 XV |             and the distance of the moon from it.~Thus Sir Isaac
10 XV |             and the distance of the moon, we know that of the moon'
11 XV |           moon, we know that of the moon's orbit, and the diameter
12 XV |         diameter of this orbit. The moon performs its revolution
13 XV |           is demonstrated, that the moon in its mean motion makes
14 XV |         fall from the height of the moon, would make its velocity
15 XV |     semi-diameters distant from the moon, a heavy body must necessarily
16 XV |             on earth, and keeps the moon in its orbit, is one and
17 XV |         being demonstrated that the moon gravitates on the earth,
18 XV | demonstrated that the earth and the moon gravitate on the sun which
19 XV |          sun, in like manner as the moon gravitates towards our globe.~
20 XV |         gravitates also towards the moon; and that the sun gravitates
21 XV |       globes. The variations of the moon are a necessary consequence
22 XV |           seen why the nodes of the moon perform their revolutions
23 XV |    attraction. The proximity of the moon, when at the full, and when
24 XV |       placed by Aristotle below the moon, and sent back by Descartes