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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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Dr. Gregory, has demonstrated, that to
cheMocion ot any ofche Celestial Bodies in
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che tirst Law oF Nacure: The second con
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rectilinear Mocion, and Forces ic into a
currilinear Orbit, (0 thac it must be re-
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secondary Impulses arise trom that Vni-
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corrard him the Planets, and chey their
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