He died 24 years before Newton and In the same year Newton would become President of the Royal Society. Unfortunately, Robert Hooke would go further into obscurity after his death in 1703, never restoring a friendly relationship between the two of them. Book three of Principia was almost not published because Newton was still furious with Hooke, but instead, he decided to remove all references of Hooke’s name in the book before publishing it. His book, Principia published in 1687, would become the best-selling science book of all times.
While Hooke was slowly going into obscurity, Newton’s popularity was on the rise. Despite the altercation, Newton did submitted a paper entitled, “ Theory of Light and Colours” in the Royal Society’s journal, Philosophical Transactions. This would be the first display of the behavior he will use to defend criticism of his work throughout his life. Newton, of course, responded in anger and became very defensive about his work. Hooke was an instigator in these attacks. Other scientists present at the presentation also attacked Newton’s ideas about light. He said light traveled in waves and then he proceeded to attack Newton on his methods and conclusions. Newton had just presented his idea that white light was a composite of all the colors of light in the spectrum and that light was composed of particles. The rivalry started when Newton presented his first paper on the nature of light in February of 1672. The rivalry between Newton and Hooke began on the subject of light, after Newton was admitted to the Royal Society.
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