"The fall of the apple, or the tipsy philosopher"
- Adams/Box 43-44/Box 43/5/7
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- 1800-1891 (Undated.)
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Poem against Newton.
Hampden, John (d 1891) Zetetic astronomer
"The fall of the apple, or the tipsy philosopher"
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Poem against Newton.
Hampden, John (d 1891) Zetetic astronomer
'The globular theory as adopted and formulated by Sir Isaac Newton'
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
'The Zetetic Society offers a premium of one hundred guineas for a lucid and impartial description of the origin, progress, and asserted proofs in support of the globular theory'.
Hampden, John (d 1891) Zetetic astronomer
'The most startling question of the day. Sir Isaac Newton!'
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
'The Zetetic Society offers the liberal premium of one hundred guineas for any demonstrable confirmation of the reality of any one of the elementary conditions on which the globular theory was originally propounded and subsequently accepted and mathematically formulated by Sir Isaac Newton.'
Hampden, John (d 1891) Zetetic astronomer