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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Of ye inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle, &amp;c.' by Robert Hooke</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Hooke attempts to explain his hypothesis for why planets moved in curved or elliptical orbits - that the curved motion came from the attractive property of a body at the centre - through a series of experiments using a pendulum.

Subject: Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 May 1666</dc:date>
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