Robert Hooke
Subtitle: Tercentennial Studies
Contributors: Michael Cooper (Editor); Michael Cyril William Hunter (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780754653653
Subjects: History of science; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Scientists; History: World; Biography / Autobiography; History; Science; Natural Sciences; Intellectual life; Scientists - General; Biography; Modern - General; 17th century; Great Britain
First sentence: During the second half of the seventeenth century, the outstanding problem in astronomy was to understand the physical basis for Kepler's three empirical laws describing the observed orbital motion of a planet around the Sun.