Quote#Wisdom
These attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating,…
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)
these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating, by how much nearer the body wrought upon is to their own Centers.
— Robert Hooke
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