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The purpose of the paper is to show that the dynamical solution of the socalled "anamalous motion" of the planet Mercury, or excess perihelic motion of the planets, appeared for the first time in Newton's Principia in 1687, long before the actual astromonical phenomenon was discovered by LeVerrier in 1859. This historical fact invalidates Einstein's assertion that "Classical Mechanics is powerless" to explain this astrodynamic phenomenon. It is also shown that this Newtonian solution of the excess perihelic motion of the planets provides two additional gravitational terms: one repulsive and another attractive.

An ontological interpretation is made of the new conception of Einstein's ether.  This interpretation leads to the conclusion that the nature of the ether is pure energy.  Michelson-Morley's experiment is analyzed with this new conception of the ether, concluding that scientists and philosophers of the last century overlooked the energetic ether associated to planet earth.  Finally it is shown that the postulate of relativity is incompatible with an ontological identification of the ether, and that the constancy of the speed of light is approximately valid in laboratories immersed in gravitational fields but not in interplanetary, interstellar or intergalactic spaces.