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An objection, proving the moon to move upon her own Axis
the same answ[[subscript]]rd[[/subscript]].
[[underline]] Heathens [[/underline]], called the power, which keeps the earth and moon together, [[underline]] Æther, [[/underline]], & worshipp'd it under [[strikethrough]] name [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] the Emblem [[/insertion]] of a [[underline]] Tether [[/underline]].
The Newtonian reason why the Moon does not abandon the Earth.

[[drawn image - Earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's around the earth with the twelve zodiac symbols in a clock-like position]]

(*) There is no reason in the world why this difference should be taken; for the difference between the mutual attraction of S and M, here nearly equal to 34889024, and that [[strikethrough]] of E [[/strikethrough]] between the mutual attraction of E and M, here nearly equal to 17361120, is 17527904, the force with which the moon tends towards the Sun S, more than that towards the earth E; and therefore must abandon the earth.

† Then the attraction of the earth upon this drop is greater than the attraction of cohesion in the drop itself: and yet it is immediately said, that this attraction of cohesion in the drop is greater than the attraction of the earth upon it; which is a contradiction in terms.

[[margin]]Illustrated, by the Attraction of the Earth upon a Drop of rain. 
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