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Old 10-March-2005, 08:49 PM
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Actually, Newton suggested it. He wrote letters to various people in which he did a lot of speculating.
But did he have the evidence to support such a theory?
Yes. An understanding of gravity and visual evidence of a lot of mass in stars. He figured the stars had to be doing something other than just sitting still in space.

That 1803 book cost me $12 back in the 1980s. It turns out to be a first edition, and now it is selling for up to $350.

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