The Theological, which is the original and spontaneous form of thought, regards the facts of the universe as governed not by invariable laws of sequence, but by single and direct volitions of beings, real or imaginary, possessed of life and intelligence. In the infantile state of reason and ...
Two facts pertain to the motion of a small mass in the gravitational potential well of large body. First, at some distance from any mass distribution, the gravitational potential must reduce to the inverse radial dependence associated with a point mass. Second, the radial force of gravity, comb...