"Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to……" — John Aubrey
"Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper."
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John Aubrey
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15 Quotes by John Aubrey
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he…
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How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
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I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
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If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection…
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Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him,…
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