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with the satellites. As Delambre and Grant
have said, this fiction only retarded the progress
of pure science. It had no sort of relation to
the more modern, but equally misleading,
”nebular hypothesis.” While many were talk-
ing and guessing, a giant mind was needed
at this stage to make things clear.
7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON–LAW OF UNI-
VERSAL GRAVITATION.
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