A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1728
- Retrieved
- Jun 20, 2012
- ISBN
- r1fpw9L9ra
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Newton on the Power of Gravity
As he sat alone in a garden, he [Isaac Newton in 1666, age 24] fell into a speculation on the power of gravity; that as this power is not found sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the…