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The sun being greater in mass and volume than all the planets- 

 taken together, and having accordingly the greatest force of 

 motion, has the greatest force of influence upon all the planets. 

 But as the force of influence diminishes according to the square 

 of the distance, we will find by a clear mathematical calculation 

 the sum of the velocity of its planets together with the reason of 

 their different motion around the sun. The planet Mercury, 

 being the smallest of the planets, has its peculiar double motion 

 as the smallest of all other planets, but being the nearest to the 

 sun, the influence of the sun causes upon the planet to move 

 with quickest speed in the direction of the sun. The planet 

 Venus although its peculiar double motion is greater than the 

 planet Mercury, moves slower around the sun, being further 

 from the sun, the influence of the latter upon it is less than upon 

 Mercury. This explanation refers to all other planets, to all the 

 phenomena in our solar system and to the falling bodies upon 

 our planet in the first distance of its radius (860 German miles.) 

 Thus, the law of the planetary motion and of the falling bodies 

 are not due to the law of &quot; gravitation &quot; which nature does not 

 know, but to the law of motion by its own influence. The 

 same is the case with the law of &quot; inertia &quot; which nature does 

 not know. 



The scientists instead of this, that they should have pene 

 trated the mystery of nature itself, to understand its being, that 

 the motion is only the one force in matter, that there is not one 

 atom in existence not to be in motion, and there is no particular 

 ized force in matter, neither in elementary bodies nor in 

 minerals, plants or animal, which are not a mode of motion. And 

 when they have perceived the phenomena of the planetary 

 motion and of the falling bodies, they should know that those 

 phenomena are revealed in their actuality only by the motion with 

 its influence; furthermore, to understand that the force of 

 influence diminishes according to the square of the distance 

 between the two bodies, and then calculate the motion with 

 the influence by the knowledge of mathematics, their calcula 

 tion would then be correct and they w^Bld have thus established 

 the right law of nature. But those scientists being dependent 



