Newton's law of universal gravitation is a general physical law derived from empirical observations by what Newton called induction. It describes the gravitational attraction between bodies with mass. It is a part of classical mechanics and was first formulated in Newton's work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("the Principia"), first published on 5 July 1687.




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