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We now reach the period which is the
culminating point of interest in the history
of dynamical astronomy. Isaac Newton was
born in 1642. Pemberton states that New-
ton, having quitted Cambridge to avoid the
plague, was residing at Wolsthorpe, in Lin-
colnshire, where he had been born; that he
was sitting one day in the garden, reflecting
upon the force which prevents a planet from
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