Excerpt from Matho, or the Cosmotheoria Puerilis, Vol. 2: A Dialogue, in Which the First Principles of Philosophy and Astronomy Are Accommodated to the Capacity of Young Persons, or Such as Have Yet No Tincture of These Sciences Areturus would a pear/but like one of tbc fixed Stars, and tbe jolar Planets be quite ab/brbed by tbc i mmenje intervening Space. T be great centrifugal Force on the larger Planets a Relief to their Inbabitants, as [it/pending a coryiderable Part of tbei r ll'eigbt on tbofe vafl Bodies. 't be Den/ity q tboje great Bodies wifely contrived in being left tban in [maller Bodies, upon tbis Account. An eajy Way to calculate their Quantiti es of Matter and Ben/iti es. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.