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O./11a.1/23A
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Draft of letter from Robert Hooke to Isaac Newton
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- 6 Jan. 1679/80 (Creation)
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1 sheet.
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Endorsed with date and note, 'His Hypothesis about the Attraction & moving of the Heavenly Bodies'.
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A version of this letter, text taken from the letter held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, is published in Newton, I., & Turnbull, H. W. 1. (1960). The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society. Vol. 12 pp. 309-310.
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O.11a.1/23A