Hooke's September 1685 ellipse vertices construction and Newton's instantaneous impulse construction (Q1360076)

The study resumes another aspect of the well-known dispute between Hooke and Newton on the priority in the field of centripetal force mechanics. The author of the paper now under review rejects the idea put forward by Nauenberg (in 1994), according to whom a manuscript of Hooke's, from 1685 (yet less known to specialists) represents actually the mathematical formulation of the principles of dynamics; Herman Erlichson -- the above-unnamed author -- concludes that Hooke could not have developed a quantitative theory of centripetal force motion as such, its contribution representing only a genuine illustration of Newton's instantaneous impulse construction. There follows a discussion on Hooke's manuscript -- The Laws of Circular Motion -- , on his diagram of September 1685 and of its explanatory text; also, space is given to the proof that Hooke's ellipse vertices coincide with the vertices of Newton's instantaneous impulse construction and to the proof that the centripetal impulse leg is proportional to the radial distance.