Reconsidering the Hooke-Newton debate on gravitation: Recent results

Early Science and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 510-517

  Guicciardini, Niccoló ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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EID: 67650301975     PISSN: 13837427     EISSN: 15733823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157338205774661825     Document Type: Review

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1. On March 2005, at a special ceremony at Westminster Abbey, a memorial tablet was placed on the floor, which Hooke had laid there when he was Abbey Surveyor, close to the memorial for Dr Richard Bentley, Head Master of Westminster School when Hooke was a pupil there.
2. Aubrey, Brief Lives, 1: 415.
3. Cfr. Newton, Correspondence, 3: 40-44.
4. See the final bibliography for further details.
5. Vickers, English Science, 99-100.
6. Hall, "Robert Hooke and Horology," 175.
7. Gal, Meanest Foundations.
8. See Shapin's seminal paper "Who Was Robert Hooke?"
9. To use Thomas Sprat's words as cited in Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer's "Introduction" to Robert Hooke, New Studies, 13.
10. As Barbara Shapiro remarks in Probability, 58: "Newton then does stand somewhat apart not only in accomplishment but also in his philosophy of science." For the persistence of tensions within the Royal Society, even after Newton's election as President,
11. see Feingold, "Mathematicians and Naturalists."
12. This fact has been pointed out in Bechler, "Newton's 1672 Optical Controversies."
13. Newton, Optical Papers, 1: 86-9, cited and translated in
14. Shapiro, Fits, Passion, Paroxysms, 25.
15. Alan Shapiro, more than anybody else, has taught us in Fits, Passion, Paroxysms, to appreciate the pervasive role of the quest for certainty in Newton's thought.
16. Hooke was, of course, very much part of these projects, but his approach, which favoured the mathematization of results, was distinct from Boyle's explicit rejection of mathematical discourse in experimental practice. On Boyle, see Shapin, "Robert Boyle and Mathematics."
17. Newton, Correspondence, 1: 96-7.
18. Newton, Correspondence, Ibid., 2: 113.
19. Glanvill, Scepsis scientifica, 195. Cited in Bechler, "Newton's 1672 Optical Controversies," 136.
20. Cited ibid.
21. Newton, Correspondence, 2: 435-440.
22. Cited and translated in Nauenberg, "Robert Hooke's Seminal Contribution to Orbital Dynamics."
23. See P. Pugliese, "Robert Hooke and the Dynamics of Motion in a Curved Path," 196-9;
24. and M. Nauenberg, "Robert Hooke's Seminal Contribution to Orbital Dynamics."
25. See the paper by Nauenberg in this issue.
26. See Bertoloni Meli's paper in this issue and also his "Inherent and Centrifugal Forces in Newton," forthcoming in Archive for History of Exact Sciences.
27. Bennett, "The Mechanics' Philosophy and the Mechanical Philosophy."
28. See fig. 4 of Nauenberg's paper in this issue.