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In this third Edition, the reſiſtance of mediums is ſomewhat more largely handled than before; and new experiments of the reſiſtance of heavy bodies falling in air are added. In the third Book, the argument to prove that the Moon is retained in its orbit by the force of gravity is enlarged on. And there are added new obſervations of Mr. Pound's of the proportion of the diameters of Jupiter to each other: The are beſides added Mr. Kirk's obſervations of the Comet in 1680. the orbit of that Comet computed in an ellipſis by Dr. Halley; and the orbit of the Comet in 1723. computed by Mr. Bradley.