An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / By Colin Maclaurin. Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch.

  • Colin MacLaurin
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1750
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Credit: An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / By Colin Maclaurin. Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C H A P. IV. Of the general gravitation of mat¬ ter 288 C H A P. V. Of the quantity of matter3 and den- fity^ of the fun and planets 303 BOOK IV. The effcds of the genera! power of gravity deduced fynthetically. CHAP. I. Of the centre of the folar fyftem 310 CHAP. II. Shewing how gravity produces fame fmall irregularities in the motions of the planets 315 CHAP. III. Of the approach and recefs of the planets to and from the fun, in every revolution 320 C H A P. IV. Of the motion of the moon 338 C H A P. V. Of the path of a fecondary planet upon an immoveable plane *, with an illufiration of Sir liaac Newton’j account of the motions of the fatellites, from the theory of gravity 352 C H A P. VI. Of the figure of the earthy and the precejfon of the equinoxes 362