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Newton and Hooke's bitter fight over gravity

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The scientific revolution was mostly just brilliant men acting like incredibly petty toddlers. Robert Hooke practically invented modern microscopy, but he spent his later years bitterly accusing Isaac Newton of stealing his work on gravity. Newton retaliated by essentially erasing Hooke from the historical record the absolute moment Hooke died.

Newton and Hooke's bitter fight over gravity
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