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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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Ohilocorbieat Drinciples
one eo criet che contrary, e may latels
conclude that the fixt Stars arc Co many
Suns in cheCenter ota System ot Planets
and their Satellits.
S XVIII. Belides chele already men-
cioned there is another Species oF Hea
venlu Bodies, cald Comets, Which re-
volre about the sun; in very Oblons
Flliprick Orbits, approachins eo Parabolick
Curves. The Times oF cheir Periodical
Rerolutions are very lons, since in chree
or tour Thouland VCars, we have not
Policirely decermin dthe Returns otabore
OnC OF CWO; hoveVer, iS certam, thae
dikre our Planets, thez do more in a ren
currins Orbit, chat the sun is in onc oE
che Foci oF this Orbit, thatby a Ray From
thesun, they deseribe equal dreas in equal
Fimes, thac the Came Lan of Gravitation
obcains in them, wtuch does in the Pla-
nets; chat cheir Periodical Times are Cer
cam and invariable, and that cheir Moti
onsare regular, onls cheir Courle in thein
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