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 - 9789048160679 - December 9, 2010
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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 Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 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     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 9, 2010
ISBN13 9789048160679
Publishers Springer
Pages 252
Dimensions 210 × 279 × 14 mm   ·   381 g
Language English  

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