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human intellect, and no one is more con-
scious of the limitations of the logical pro-
cess called mathematics, which even now
has not solved directly the problem of only
three bodies.
These reflections, arising from the writ-
ing of this History, go to explain the invari-
able humility of the great mathematical as-
tronomers. Newton’s comparison of himself
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