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Sect. XII.
of Natural Philopoſophy.
291



Scholium.


The attractions of ſphærical bodies being now explained, it comes next in order to treat of the laws of attraction in other bodies conſiſting in like manner of attractive particles; but to treat of them particularly is not neceſſary to my deſign. It will be ſufficient to ſubjoin ſome general propoſitions relating to the forces of ſuch bodies, and the motions thence ariſing, becauſe the knowledge of theſe will be of ſome little uſe in philoſophical enquiries.