In existographies, Christopher Wren (1632-1723) (Cattell 1000:874) was an English architect, astronomer, anatomist, geometer, and mathematical physicist, noted for []Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Wren:
“Newton recalled from a conversation in 1677 that Wren had known the inverse square law then, before Hooke, and asked Haley to find out when Wren had first learned of the law.”— Stephen Inwood (2002), The Man Who Knew Too Much (pg. 362); on the response of Newton to the news by Edmond Halley that Hooke wants acknowledge credit, in the second book of Principia, for his work on the inverse square law [1]
References
1. (a) Newton, Isaac. (1686). “Letter to Edmund Halley”, Mar 27
(b) Trunbull, H.W. (1960). The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Volume Two (pgs. 433-344). Cambridge University Press.
(c) Inwood, Stephen. (2003). The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1653-1703 (pg. 362). Pan MacMillan.
External links
● Christopher Wren – Wikipedia.
