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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 Ofer Gal Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002 edition
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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
Ofer Gal
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
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