Note 32 — CHAP. VII. The physical Causes of the Motions of the Planets. The Excentricities of their Orbits. The Times in which the Action of Gravity would bring them to the Sun. Archimedes’s ideal Problem for moving the Earth. The World not eternal.
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Δὸς ποῦ στῶ, καὶ τὸν κόσμον κινήσω, i. e. Give me a place to stand on, and I shall move the Earth.