Robert hooke biography book

  • Robert Hooke FRS was an English polymath who was active as a physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.
  • A biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten maverick – a major figure in the 17th-century cultural and scientific revolutions.
  • This book, the first life of Hooke for nearly fifty years, rescues itssubject from centuries of obscurity and misjudgement.

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    The Forgotten Genius: The Biography Of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 - Softcover

    From Publishers Weekly

    Forgotten though he may have been, this is the second biography of Hooke to appear this season (after Lisa Jardine's The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Forecasts, Nov. 17, 2003). The next time you open a window, thank Robert Hooke, who invented the modern sash window. Or thank him when you're driving your bil, for Hooke invented the universal joint, indispensable in transmissions. In this extensively researched biography, Inwood (A History of London), like Jardine, wants to rehabilitate Hooke's reputation after centuries of denigration due mainly to Hooke's celebrated disputes with Isaac Newton and other luminaries like Hevelius, Huygens and Leibniz, whom he accused of taking credit for his discoveries. In addition to his work as a scientist, Hooke played an important role alongside Christopher Wren in rebuilding London after the devastating fire of 1666; Inwood argues that history has

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    THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635–1703

    Forgotten though he may have been, this fryst vatten the second biography of Hooke to appear this season (after Lisa Jardine's Forecasts, Nov. 17, 2003). The next time you open a window, thank Robert Hooke, who invented the modern sash window. Or thank him when you're driving your fordon, for Hooke invented the universal joint, indispensable in transmissions. In this extensively researched biography, Inwood ( ), like Jardine, wants to rehabilitate Hooke's reputation after centuries of denigration due mainly to Hooke's celebrated disputes with Isaac Newton and other luminaries like Hevelius, Huygens and Leibniz, whom he accused of taking credit for his discoveries. In addition to his work as a scientist, Hooke played an important role alongside Christopher Wren in rebuilding London after the devastating fire of 1666; Inwood argues that history has credited to Wren many buildings that were actually designed by Hooke.

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    Robert Hooke

    English scientist, architect, polymath (1635–1703)

    Robert HookeFRS (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703)[a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]".

    Hooke was a Fellow of the Royal Societ

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