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IT is proliably within the knowledge of most of those present that Sir Isaac Newton, by his great discovery of gravitation and its laws, was able to show that a single principle, ideally simple, viz. that every particle in the universe attract any other particle towards itself with a force which is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them, would completely and absolutely account for the three laws of planetary motion which Kepler had given to the world.
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On the Newtonian Constant of Gravitation1. Nature 50, 330–334 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050330a0
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