![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/mr-hooke-sent-in-his-next-letter-to-sir-isaac-newton-the-whole-of-his-hypothes.jpg)
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