Robert Hooke

Sources

1. BookNever at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
2. WebsiteHistory of the Royal Society

member of:

• Royal Society

  Sources: History of the Royal Society

collaborated with:

• Robert Boyle

  Sources: The Scientific Revolution

designed:

• The Monument

  Sources: The Monument

rival of:

• Isaac Newton

  Sources: Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton

wrote:

• Micrographia

  Sources: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Appears in10 items

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  The Great Fire of London2 items
  • 
    Wren’s plan for a new City · planner11 Sep 1666 O.S.
  • 
    The Monument is built · architect1671 O.S.
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  The Scientific Revolution8 items
  • The English Civil Wars and the Interregnum · Oxford experimenter22 Aug 1642 O.S.
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    Boyle’s law · air-pump builder1662 O.S.
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    Hooke’s Micrographia · authorJan 1664/65 O.S.
  • Margaret Cavendish visits the Royal Society · experimenter30 May 1667 O.S.
  • Newton’s theory of light and colours · critic8 Feb 1671/72 O.S.
  • “The shoulders of Giants” · recipient5 Feb 1675/76 O.S.
  • Leeuwenhoek’s little animals · verifier9 Oct 1676
  • A wager over the planets · claimantJan 1683/84 O.S.