Note 48 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
In writing to Flamstead, Newton requests from him the long diameters of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, that he “may see how the sesquialteral proportion fills the heavens.”
Reading edition
In writing to Flamstead, Newton requests from him the long diameters of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, that he “may see how the sesquialteral proportion fills the heavens.”