Friday, 24 February 2012

plagiarism dispute

In 1686, back the aboriginal book of Newton's Principia was presented to the Royal Society, Robert Hooke accused Newton of appropriation by claiming that he had taken from him the "notion" of "the aphorism of the abatement of Gravity, actuality accordingly as the squares of the distances from the Center". At the aforementioned time (according to Edmond Halley's abreast report) Hooke agreed that "the Demonstration of the Curves generated thereby" was wholly Newton's.7

In this way arose the catechism what, if anything, did Newton owe to Hooke? – a accountable abundantly discusse

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