• A book written by Newton in which he describe:
• Law of Universal Gravitation: Gravitation varies inversley with the square of the distance b/t gravitational bodies
• Newton's 3 Laws

Newton's law stating that gravitation varies inversely with the square of the distance b/t gravitation bodies.

·         to some people, Continental Natural Philosophers, all he did was bring upon a descriptive account but NOT an explanatory one. He did not provide an mechanical explanation. He had just provided a phenomenon but had not actually explained what had happened, they thought his work was unfinished.

• Newton even hoped that his work would be able to support the existence of God, he believed God to be the creator of the universeNewton argued that ravitational attraction is not an essential property of matter, instead it is imposed from some external force. So the fact that gravity is found in all matter from external forces must mean that it is imposed by the will of God

 Why were Newton’s ideas more widely accepted in England than in the rest of Europe?

• Theory of cartesianism wasn’t as widely accepted, more read to accept Newton’s ideas then.
• The Church of England  could legitimize te existence of God with Newton's theory.

·         Because of the political atmosphere in England at the time the Church also attempted prove that society was meant to be a hierarchy, in support of  the established government of Parliament., it was a part of God’s plan.

Disagreed with the belief that Newton's work supported England's Parliment and the idea of a hierarchy

§  Said that Newton’s work actually showed that gravity IS an essential property of matter, it is not something impose on matter from the outside. This thus opposed Newton’s belief that God imposed laws on Earth just as government should impose laws, Toland believed that instead, laws in society should derive from the people (like gravity derived from matter). 

Newton - If stars are gravitational bodies, why are they spread across the universe and not collapsing upon each other, how do they maintain their stability?