Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was chartered in 1662, and author of the famous "Micrographia" (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ingenuity in designing machines and instruments, and played a crucial role as Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire. This volume represents a benchmark in the study of Hooke, bringing together a comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of his life, thought and artistry. Its sections deal with Hooke's life and reputation; his contributions to celestial mechanics and astronomy, and to speculative natural philosophy; the instruments that he designed; and his work in architecture and construction. The introduction places the studies in the context of our current understanding of Hooke and his milieu, while the book also contains a comprehensive bibliography. In all, it will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in a figure whose complexity and importance are becoming clear after centuries of neglect.
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Michael Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Surveying at City University, London, UK. He is the author of two books on Hooke and London. Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books on science and its milieu in late seventeenth-century England, and is also the editor-in-chief of the Works and Correspondence of Robert Boyle.
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During the second half of the seventeenth century, the outstanding problem in astronomy was to understand the physical basis for Kepler's three empirical laws describing the observed orbital motion of a planet around the Sun. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Robert Hooke, Philosophical Transactions, Christopher Wren, Westminster School, Great Fire, Christ Church, Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Newton, Curator of Experiments, Head Master, Claude Perrault, Richard Busby, Trinity College, John Wilkins, Sir Robert Moray, Southampton House, Noah's Flood, System of the World, Astronomia Nova, Bethlehem Hospital, John Evelyn, John Locke, Newton's De Motu, Philips Vingboons New!
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Royal Society, Robert Hooke, Philosophical Transactions, Christopher Wren, Westminster School, Great Fire, Christ Church, Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Newton, Curator of Experiments, Head Master, Claude Perrault, Richard Busby, Trinity College, John Wilkins, Sir Robert Moray, Southampton House, Noah's Flood, System of the World, Astronomia Nova, Bethlehem Hospital, John Evelyn, John Locke, Newton's De Motu, Philips Vingboons New!
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- History of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat on 9 pages
- Mechanick Exercises by Joseph Moxon on page 82, page 185, and Back Matter
- History of science, (Service Center for Teachers of History. Publication) by Marie Boas Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: 2 Vols. in 1 (Great Books in Philosophy) by John Locke on page 216, and Back Matter
- The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development by Ernst Mach on page 4, and Back Matter
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