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Force Bodies Realized Gravitation Qualitative Reasoning Newton Referring

Front Qualitative reasoning of newton (referring to gravity)
Back observed the force pairs between celestial bodies (ex moon and earth, planets and sun, etc) and their orbits. Realized that gravitation force creates an attraction between things in the universe. Realized that there were similar gravitational attractions between any two bodies whether in orbit or not. Arrived at the law of the universal gravitation between every pair of objects in the universe 

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