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theory, which ascnoes all 
]ji Of motion to superior motions, or to the ti'ans- 
5a ’ all *’^?^°ns of greater bodies to smaller ones. 
jiji^Qf (.Portions which we witness on the earth, as the 
of atmosphere, the fall of bodies, the 
centripetal force, the motions oi 
\'^‘'ttl)iiipa ascribed, bv Sir Richard I’hillips, to 
*t>Q, 
'Motions of the earth around its axis in every 
Oasv around the sun in every year. 
f COncetVf» tlinr pvpr, it' tVipn^ wnrn nr, T\ 
'Vitio- ~ *^°nceive, that even if there were no Moon, 
’'T ^^oific *■"’0 great oceans, the Atlantic 
the ’ necessarily oscillate, or vibrate, be- 
“ by ,?°*'^ments, which bound them from north to 
i)y ejfj. combined force of the two-fold motions 
t!i,i % , They would be intercepted iti their rotation 
the eastern sides, which it is well 
"'orn away ny their action ; and a re-action 
But on the western sides of the same coU' 
motions of the moon, in its lunar orbit, 
evil]' '^*ose of the tides in their terrestrial orbit, 
5ii>*' Crfj,] a connection in the cause of both mo- 
g' j'* causes of both appear to bo identically 
Coiv,”'^ *^^'0 effects are, therefore, simultaneous. 
'tl 3d in cause. Sir Richard Phillips asserts, is to 
tl • 'Vat Motions of the earth, which operate alike 
earth, and on the moon according 
1’^'*^ di>K quantities of matter, and to the square 
®* between the earth and its waters is 
Hiri ■ tttaii,, between the earth and the moon is, he 
&■ 
s g|j -®dby means of the gaseous, orfluid medium, 
Syjj ^Pace, and transfers the motions of the sun. 
to their 
their secohdaries, and 
several secondaries. The 
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lj*V ii*^ ^ling universal space, is, he says, in this 
Of jj* ^"'versal nature, as efficient in transferring 
’'Matter masses in proportion to tlieir quan- 
^ distance, as the continuous fixed 
- ®^Uses * ? wood or metal 
I, sysf phenomena o 
* Patatr"^ 1°^ Phillips, m iv be described io the 
''vil!! ®yste^*^ plwnomena of the tides, according to 
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