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What conflicts did issac newton have with Robert Hooke?

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The great confrontation between the two men occurred in 1686 when Newton published the first volume of his Principia and Hooke affirmed that it was he who had given him the notion that led him to the law of universal gravitation. Hooke demanded credit as the author of the idea but Newton denied it

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