Gravity's inverse square law also means the reach of gravitational attraction is technically infinite. (discovermagazine.com)
The apple in Newton's eye led to the first inverse square law in science, F = G * (mM) / r2. (discovermagazine.com)
For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun. (firstthings.com)