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earth attracts a stone much more than a
stone attracts the earth.
3. Bodies are attracted to the earth’s
centre, not because it is the centre of the
universe, but because it is the centre of the
attracting particles of the earth.
4. If the earth be not round (but spheroidal?),
then bodies at different latitudes will not
be attracted to its centre, but to different
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