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in a determined or immutable Proportion to the unchangeable Density of the Earth; Therefore, if the Center of the Sun be supposed farther off from the Center of the Earth, his real Bigness and Maps must be increased, and be as the Cube of the Distance betwixt his Center and that of the Earth. (But this is a Thing, which Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]] seems to have overlooked.) And, by consequence (as that Great Man has demonstrated it, p. 191. Prop. 72. and as it follows also from my Theory of the Ca[[insertion]] use [[/insertion]] of Gravity) the Action of the Sun S upon the Moon, represented by HI parellel to IS, and upon the Earth, independently from any Center of Gravity, will be directly as the Distance of the Center of the Sun from the Center of the Moon, or else from the Center of the Earth T, if y[[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Centers of these three Globes do form an equic[[insertion]] ^ r [[/insertion]]ural Triangle, as they will always do, at a certain Time after the Evening Quadrature, and at another Time before the Morning Quadrature. And by diminishing or increasing TS or the Distance of y[[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Sun, in any Proportion; the Gravitatism HI towards him must diminish, or else increase in the same proportion, even in infinitum.
7. Therefore we may say, as the aforesaid Gravitation 1,989167 toward a Globe of Solar Matter, is to the Gravitation 1 towards another the like Globe of Solar Matter, appearing under the same Angle as that which the Sun in its mean Distance from the Earth does subtend: So would be that first Distance