Philosophy 167: Class 14 - Part 12 - Universal Gravity: a Sequence of Increasingly Implausible Claims.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-12-09
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Synopsis: Newton proposes universal gravity, acting between all bodies proportional to their masses and inversely to the square of their distance.
Opening line: "What's happened here is we've seen a sequence of proposals. There are 11 stages of this that form the theory of universal gravity that Newton's gonna defend in the Principia."