c «?■ J 
V. Inveftigaciones aliquot , ex quibtis prtibe- 
tur Terrae figu am fecundum Leges at true* 
tlonh in ratione inverfa quadrati dijlantid - 
rum maxlme ad Elltpfin accedere debere t 
per Dn. Alexin Clairaut, Reg. Societ. 
Lond. Reg. Sclent, jilcad. Parif. Soc. 
ii. f i g. i. 
J. | , A X principiis m'athcmatiris Philofophix mttt- 
rails Nqwfoniartae' (Coral. 3. Prop. xci. Lib. 
i. & Prop. xix. Lib. 3.) it:$pfcsrois Elliptka ex pat- 
ticulis conft'ans ftuidis' dehomogencis fefc mutuo at- 
trahentibus in, ratione inx r erfa quadrat! diftantiarunr 
circa fuurn axerh A a revohatur, quo columna: CE, 
CN, CA, ex quibu's conflatur ifta Sphscrois, in aequi- 
Iibrio conftitaanfur',' fi'eq'ue* Spfrajroi'di'&ntper eadem 
habeatur figura, . neceiTe eft ut gravitas m-fupedkiei 
quocumque punflo N, fit ift 5 fatfbfte' driVSM.^Adii 
r- V' ' - ' ' ■ t l ■ . \ ' ■ 
Ur igftur feiamus dri Spb aerol s gaudeat liao;proprie. r 
tate,- riune quatfamus qiaalem. patiatar, attraftionem 
,quodcumqae Corptrfea4uirt N, totius Sphxroidis fe- 
cundum difefti6nem' C ^3 atque eX^ifirat attractions 
fubducemus illam vis centrifnga6 {^ter»fii|q»;PbOVenit 
ex rotations: : Sffejroidis lecundumiiCsN agentis> & 
quattamus an vis refidua fit proportionalis 
Ideo quarrcmas prim© 
is nobis fit animus inventa applicare ad Terrae Sphaeroi- 
C 1 deni. 
