Philosophy 167: Class 13 - Part 1 - Newton-Hooke Correspondence: a Proposed Method for Detecting the Earth's Rotation, and Ideas for Analyzing Curvilinear Motion.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-12-02
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Synopsis: Letters between Hooke and Newton discuss directly measuring the rotation of the Earth, and measuring curved motion.
Opening line: "And then Descartes' Principia which he, in spite of the influence it had on him, he really did not like the book very much at all."