Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Hooke's 1674 lecture — earliest published statement of the inverse-square hypothesis for celestial motion
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations (Mid-career) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
1674 publication (the Cutlerian Lecture was delivered earlier in the 1670s).
Space
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Gresham College, London — Hooke held the Cutlerian Lectureship for many years, delivering free public scientific lectures at Gresham.
Matter
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Single Cutlerian Lecture pamphlet (~28 pages). Form is short astronomical-philosophical pamphlet.
Observer
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Mid-career Hooke as celestial mechanic. The observer is the Royal Society Curator of Experiments (Hooke had held the position since 1662) and the leading London experimentalist.
Energy
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Pre-Newtonian celestial-mechanical energies. The pamphlet is the most concentrated single document of Hooke's celestial-mechanical thought.
Information
An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations
Single pamphlet with three propositions. The three principles (universal attraction, inertia, decreasing-with-distance gravitation) anticipate the Newtonian Principia by 13 years.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The pamphlet at the centre of the Hooke-Newton priority dispute over universal gravitation. Continuously discussed in the history of science (Westfall, Iliffe, Inwood); the assessment of whether Hooke's 1674 statement and the 1679-80 correspondence entitled him to priority over Newton has been continually contested.