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of Sir Ifaac, has nothing of that flight way of treating 
fo great a man; and as my utmoft wifh is to be judged 
on that account by the Royal Society, I fhall relate 
what were my objections ; which I cannot effect in 
a more concife and clear method, than by giving the 
tranflation of the article, which contains it. 
§ LI. of the fecond part of the theory, &c. 
“ In which is feen what had induced Sir If. Newton 
“ to think , that the planets , when denfer at the cen- 
“ ter than at the furface , ought to he fatter than in 
u cafe of homogeneity, 
“ Some years ago I gave, in the Philof Tranf. 
“ N°. 445>, the theorem of the precedent article ; 
“ and on this occafion I mentioned a paffage of Sir 
“ Ifaac contrary to it. Not having at that time 
“ looked into the fecond edition of his Principia , 1 
“ could not know what had engaged that illuftrious 
<c philofopher to think fo ; and far from fufpeCling 
tc any miflake in his proportion, I was contented to 
“ think, that the difference between our conclufions 
“ arofe from a different way of conceiving the infide 
“ of the earth and I imagined, that he had happen’d 
" to fall upon fuch a difpofition of parts, as would 
“ anfwer to his aflertion. I then follow’d only his 
“ commentators, and efpecially Dr. Gregory, fhew- 
“ ing, that his explanation of Sir Ifaac’s conclufion 
u was wrong, as grounded upon a propofition, which 
“ did not hold in the prefent cafe For that pro- 
“ pofition (which is, that the gravity at any point 
“ of the earth is inverfedly as the diffance from the 
“ center) has only room, when the earth is homo- 
“ geneous; and, confequently, ought not to be made 
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