"Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to……" — John Aubrey

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the… - 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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