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of the moon which had never been noticed,
and to discover the oblate figure of the earth
and the cause of the tides. These investiga-
tions occupied the best part of his life; but
he wrote the whole of his great book in fif-
teen months.
Having developed and enunciated the true
laws of motion, he was able to show that
Kepler’s second law (that equal areas are
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