If a fluid be composed of particles mutually flying [fleeing from] each other, and the density be as the compression, the centrifugal forces [repulsion] of the particles will be reciprocally proportional to the distances of their centres. And, vice versa, particles flying each other with forces that are reciprocally proportional to the distances of their centres, compose an elastic fluid [liquid or gas], whose density is as the compression.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If a fluid be composed of particles mutually flying [fleeing from] each other, and the density be as the compression, the centrifugal forces [repulsion] of the particles will be reciprocally proportional to the distances of their centres. And, vice versa, particles flying each other with forces that are reciprocally proportional to the distances of their centres, compose an elastic fluid [liquid or gas], whose density is as the compression." in the context of "Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Book II, Proposition XXIII, Theorem XVIII, as quoted in The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1803) Tr. Andrew Motte, Vol. 2, p. 60. This is described as an attempt to explain Boyle's law in terms of inter-atomic repulsions by Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield, The Architecture of Matter (1962) p. 191." to mean that wisdom is timeless.