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I Do Not Define Time, Space, Place, And Motion, As Being Well Known To All. Only I Must Observe, That The Common People Conceive Those Quantities Under No Other Notions But From The Relation They Bear To Sensible Objects. And Thence Arise Certain Prejudices, For The Removing Of Which It Will Be Convenient To Distinguish Them Into Absolute And Relative, True And Apparent, Mathematical And Common.

Do Not Bodies And Light Act Mutually Upon One Another; That Is To Say, Bodies Upon Light In Emitting, Reflecting, Refracting And Inflecting It, And Light Upon Bodies For Heating Them, And Putting Their Parts Into A Vibrating Motion Wherein Heat Consists?

Thus Far I Have Explained The Phenomena Of The Heavens And Of Our Sea By The Force Of Gravity, But I Have Not Yet Assigned A Cause To Gravity. Indeed, This Force Arises From Some Cause That Penetrates As Far As The Centers Of The Sun And Planets Without Any Diminution Of Its Power To Act, And That Acts Not In Proportion To The Quantity Of The Surfaces Of The Particles On Which It Acts (as Mechanical Causes Are Wont To Do) But In Proportion To The Quantity Of Solid Matter, And Whose Action Is Extended Everywhere To Immense Distances, Always Decreasing As The Squares Of The Distances.

Do Not The Rays Which Differ In Refrangibility Differ Also In Flexibity; And Are They Not By Their Different Inflexions Separated From One Another, So As After Separation To Make The Colours In The Three Fringes Above Described? And After What Manner Are They Inflected To Make Those Fringes?

Bullialdus Wrote That All Force Respecting Ye Sun As Its Center & Depending On Matter Must Be Reciprocally In A Duplicate Ratio Of Ye Distance From Ye Center.