Quote#Politics & Power
All Cœlestial Bodies whatsoever, have an attraction or gravitating…
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)
all Cœlestial Bodies whatsoever, have an attraction or gravitating power towards their own Centers
— Robert Hooke
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