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cal shells, each of uniform density) acts as if
the whole mass were collected at the centre,
he was able to express the meaning of Ke-
pler’s laws in propositions which have been
summarised as follows:–
The law of universal gravitation.– Every
particle of matter in the universe attracts
every other particle with a force varying
inversely as the square of the distance be-
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