Excerpt from Matho, or the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, Vol. 2Matho defires to know why the Secondary Planets might not have revolved/eparately ahout the Sun, as the immediate Center of their Motion If the Di¿ance of the Sa tellites from their Primaries had heen greater or' lafs, what nut/t the Configuences have heen? That there may he more Bodies in the Solar Sy¿em than are di/cofoerahle hy us. In what Proportion the centripe tal Force is increafid or dimini/hed, as the Planet is nearer to, or more remote from, the Sun. From what Canjes the centrifu gal Force hecomes greater or le s. It is fhewn nece/ary, hy hringing the centripe tal and centrifugal Forces to an Equili hrium, that the Cuhes of the Dzjtances of the Planets from the Sun mzfi he as the S guares of their Periodical Times. And contrarily, as this Proportion holds in fail, from thence it is fhewn, that the centri jagal, and therefore the centripetal, Force' mu/i he inner/ely as the Squares of the Planets Di/z'anees from the S an. P. 6 5, 66.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.