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Attempts to explain this theory using a pendulum (figure in text)

Reference number
RBO/3/35
Earliest possible date
23 May 1666
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'Of the Inflection Of a Direct Motion into a Curve by a Supervening attractive Principle' by Robert Hooke, 23 May 1666, RBO/3/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_35/of-the-inflection-of-a-direct-motion-into-a-curve-by-a-supervening-attractive-principle-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 21 March 2025

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