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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 105, page id 797370323:0263
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OF Matter: WVhereFore Pecins the Sun con-
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their Places, reccir d’an impulle, etrict
drore em alone the Tancents oF their Or-
bits; ehis ith the Cmall Resistance they
mece in cheir Courses, and the Force ot
the Accraction diministrins a5 thC Squares
oF their Distances increale, maiimeu
has made em erer since revolre in cheir
Flliprick Orbits, in onc of whose Foci the
Sun is Reuaced: And wrhat is here Caid
oF the C aule oF the Primary Planet S MO-
tions aboue the Sun, may be understood
OF the secondary Planets Motions, about
the Primary ones. AI che Planets re-
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