‘publishing’ his treatises in manuscript form among his correspondence circle. Guicciardini (2004) has pointed out that the effect of this dispute on Newton’s publishing had sometimes been exaggerated since Newton was apt, in the period between 16, when he committed himself in print in the Principia, to indulge in ‘scribal communication’, i.e. He explained his delay in publishing them as a desire to avoid ‘Dispute about these Matters’, a thinly veiled reference to his dispute with Robert Hooke in 1672 following Newton’s initial contact with the Royal Society. Material from the 1680s was also included, as were the ‘Third Book and the last Proposition of the Second’. In an advertisement to the reader to his Opticks, published at London in 1704, Newton explained that the work being published was not new but rather contained material which he had originally worked on in the 1670s and which had been sent to the Royal Society in 1675. ‘My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments’.
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