NEW 
of the i in a ratio fomewhat 
o f Jupiter and che fun will be found a point 
little tout the fun’s furface. An y fame means, 
oun 
is always at rett ; checetae, ee the fun will have a mo- 
to the various feaions 
fr ec 
II. The planets move in ellipfes that have their foci in 
the centre of the fun, and aero, areas proportional to 
their times 
his we have already laid deans & pofteriori, as a pheno- 
menon ; game » that the principle of the au heel motions 
is theway Dy Thus, fince the 
but the atl actions of the 
proportional to the times ; 
There- 
planets are very {mall, and may be well thrown afide. 
fore, &c. 
Indeed, the action-of Jupiter on Saturn is of fome confe- 
ce; oad hence, according to the different fituations and 
diftances of thofe two planets, their orbits will be a little 
ifturbed,’; 
The fun’s orbit too is fenfibly difturbed by the action of 
the moon; and the common centre of the two defcribes an 
ellipfis round the fun placed in the umbilicus; and with a 
radius drawn to the le of the fun, defcribes areas pro- 
portional to the tim 
VIII. The cles and nodes of the planets are at reft ; 
excepting for fome inconfiderable irregularities arifing from 
the ations of the revolving planets and comets. Confe- 
quently, as the fixed ftars ae their pofition to the aphelia 
and nodes, bes too are atr 
IX € axis, or a diameter, of the planets is lefs 
than the equatorial diam 
The planets, if they had no diurnal rotation, would be 
the Ba ac it and o w all near i 
t this figure of ie earth fir Ifaac Newton proves like- 
wile & pofteriori ; from the ofeillations of pendulums being 
NE W 
ra and fmaller in. the equatorial than the polar parts of 
e globe. 
: . All the moon’s motions, and all the inequalities in 
thofe motions, follow fro rw principles: e. gr. her un- 
equal velocity, and that of her re and apogee in — 
fyzygies and quadratures ; the differences in her eccen- 
tricity, and = variation, &e. See ess. rere fae 
SyzyGy, 
I. From the inequalities in the lunar motions, we 
deduce the grant inequalities in the motions of the fatel. 
lites. 
XII. From thefe ata i aaa the action of 
the fun and moon upon the earth, it follows, that we muft 
have Glee 3 or ig the fea ane "twrell and fubfide twice every 
day. See 
Xa. Hence likewife sional the ici eaiall . eases ; 
as, that they are above the region o Dy 
planetary a iar ; that they ie by the tants 8 Tighe refed 
upon them ; that they move in conic fection um- 
bilici are in the centre of the fun; and by radil aravin t se 
compafling them like atmofpheres. See Comet. 
rg objections raifed sai this gree pe are erie 
. ophy. 
TRACTION, V My 
NEWTOWN, i in arab 
Il bo croigh-town in 
red . 
whic 
ymer, bifhop o — efter, and Y fubleques 
by Edward II., Edwa and queen 
prefent it is g only a very talng place, but the numerous 
traces of ftreets, ftill diftin€lly vilible,  fufficiently se 
its former extent an 
a 
eth 
ele&tive franchife being vefted in the aver and eryelies 
holding raphe lands, as determined by a committee of the 
oufe o ns in The haven of Dare wn af. 
mayor and ace They hold a court-leet, and appoint 
Pan ae but pay a rent to the lard of the manor of 
Swainiton.” Wortlley’s ee of the ve of Wight. 
EWTOWN, am can in the hundred of Newtown, 
and county of Mons North Wales, i¢ fituated = 
2 the 
