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'Animadversiones in novam Theoriam Motus' of Christopher Wren and Christian Huygens

Reference number: RBO/4/21

Date: 1669

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Criticisms about the new theory of motion by Christopher Wren and Christian Huygens

Presented to the Royal Society on 10 June 1669

At end a note reads: 'This being read at the Society, Dr Wren declared, that what the Author of these Animadversions esteemed for a Paradox, he judge to be a Truth, and had, before this, considered as a Corollary naturally following from the Rules. The President said, that the General Cases of Motion, being but three, were in short made out thus'.

Brouncker's theory of motion follows this.

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RBO/4/21
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1669
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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'Animadversiones in novam Theoriam Motus' of Christopher Wren and Christian Huygens, 1669, RBO/4/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_21/animadversiones-in-novam-theoriam-motus-of-christopher-wren-and-christian-huygens, accessed on 12 May 2026

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