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Denique si corpora omnia in circuitu terrae gravia esse in terram,
idque pro quantitate materiae in singulis,
Et lunam gravem esse in terram pro quantitate materiae suae,
Et vicissim mare nostrum grave esse in lunam,
Et planetas omnes graves esse in se mutuo,
Et cometarum similem esse gravitatem in solem,
per experimenta et observationes astronomicas universaliter constet:
Dicendum erit per hanc regulam quod corpora omnia in se mutuo gravitant.

Nam et fortius erit argumentum ex phaenomenis de gravitate universali,
Quam de corporum impenetrabilitate:
De qua utique in corporibus coelestibus nullum experimentum,
Nullam prorsus observationem habemus.

Attamen gravitatem corporibus essentialem esse minime affirmo.
Per vim insitam intelligo solam vim inertiae.
Haec immutabilis est.
Gravitas recedendo a terra diminuitur.

Finally, if it is universally established by experiments and astronomical observations that all bodies on or near the earth gravitate toward the earth, and do so in proportion to the quantity of matter in each body, and that the moon gravitates toward the earth in proportion to the quantity of its matter, and that our sea in turn gravitates toward the moon, and that all planets gravitate toward each other, and that there is a similar gravity of comets toward the sun, it will have to be concluded by this third rule that all bodies gravitate toward one another.

Indeed, the argument from phenomena will be even stronger for universal gravity than for the impenetrability of bodies, for which, of course, we have not a single experiment, and not even an observation, in the case of the heavenly bodies. Yet I am by no means affirming that gravity is essential to bodies. By inherent force I mean only the force of inertia. This is immutable. Gravity is diminished as bodies recede from the earth.

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from De Mundi Systemate .​.​. Sir Isaac Newton (2021), released April 12, 2021

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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