Excerpt from A New Theory of Gravitation, and Other Subjects The views set forth in the following pages have occurred to me in my state of total blind ness, when in my hours of enforced idleness, I have reflected on many subjects with which my mind is somewhat familiar. It may seem egotistical in me to differ from the great scientific minds of the age, but I have long thought that the subject of Gravitation, as it is generally received, is inaccurate, and that the tending of bodies to the centre is due to a different cause than the one usually assigned. 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.