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I have in some of my foregoing observations discovered some new…

Quote byRobert Hooke · 1635–1703

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth (1674) pp. 27-28, read to the Royal Society 1671, written 1670. Inserted comment (in italics) by John Aubrey, Brief Lives. Note: this statement precedes the publication of Newton's Principia by near 20 years..

English (original)

I have in some of my foregoing observations discovered some new Motions even in the Earth it self, which perhaps were not dreamt of before

— Robert Hooke

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