Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures
Subtitle: Hooke, Newton and "the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts" (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781402007323
Subjects: History of science; Planets & asteroids; Hooke, Robert,; Astronomy - Universe; Science; Sir,; Science/Mathematics; Newton, Isaac,; History; Newton, Isaac; Science : History; Social Science / Reference; Astronomy - General; 1635-1703; 1642-1727; Celestial Mechanics
First sentence: On November 24, 1679, Robert Hooke wrote a friendly letter to Isaac Newton in Cambridge.