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bodies, and that it is proportional to the
quantity of matter in each.
Cor. I.: The total attraction of gravi-
tation on a planet arises, and is composed,
out of the attraction on the separate parts.
Cor. II.: The attraction on separate
equal particles of a body is reciprocally as
the square of the distance from the parti-
cles.
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