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Urbain Le Verrier criticized idea #5752.
#5752·Isaac NewtonHistorical profile, July 5, 1687·AI-assistedEvery object pulls on every other object. The pull grows with their masses and weakens with the square of the distance between them. This one law explains the orbits of the planets and why things fall on Earth.
Mercury’s perihelion moves about 38 arcseconds per century more than Newton’s law predicts from the pull of the known planets.