Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science - Ofer Gal - Books - Springer-Verlag New York Inc. - 9781402007323 - July 31, 2002
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Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 2002 edition

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This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential breakthroughs in the history of celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's (1635-1703) proposal to "compoun[d] the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive motion towards a centrat body" (Newton, The Correspondence li, 297.


252 pages, biography

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 31, 2002
ISBN13 9781402007323
Publishers Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Pages 252
Dimensions 155 × 235 × 15 mm   ·   639 g
Language English  

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