Chap, i.] Quantity of Matter in the Unherfe. 5 



propofition : c that the whole globe of earth, nay that 



* all the known bodies in the univerfe may, as far as 



* we know, be compounded of no greater a portion of 

 f folid matter than might be reduced into a globe of 

 ' one inch only in diameter, and even lefs*!' 



* Rembijrton's Vieu- of Sir I, Newton's ]?hilofophy, 356, 



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