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ACCOUNT

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SIR ISAAC NEWTON’s

PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOVERIES,

IN FOUR BOOKS.

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COLIN M A C L A U R I N, A. M.

Late Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Mathematics in the University ofEdinburgh, and Secretary to the Philosophical Society there.

Published from the Author’s Manuscript Papers,

By PATRICK MURDOCH, M. A. and F. R. S.

LONDON

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