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Robert Hooke
This is probably not a portrait of Robert Hooke, see Robert Hooke talkpage
His microscope
This one includes the schematic sketch. From Micrographia
Greyscale picture of Robert Hooke's drawing of a flea in his Micrographia.
He was the first to apply the word "cell" to biological objects: Cork. From Micrographia.
'The Fossil Hunter'. Robert Hooke as a ten year old on the Isle of Wight where his father was a curate. Hooke is shown where he was born and brought up, at Freshwater Bay. Oil on board by Rita Greer 2005.
'Robert Hooke on the Isle of Wight'. Hooke's father was the curate of All Saints' Church, Freshwater, (shown in the background), near the sluggish river the Western Yar. Although still a boy, Hooke made a model boat that would fire off cannon as it sailed. At the age of thirteen, after the death of his father, who had left him £40, he left his mother and moved to London to be educated at Westminster School after firs
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No portrait survives of Robert Hooke. His name is somewhatobscure today, due in part to the enmity of his famous, influential,and extremely vindictive colleague, Sir Isaac Newton. Yet Hookewas perhaps the single greatest experimental scientist of theseventeenth century. His interests knew no bounds, ranging fromphysics and astronomy, to chemistry, biology, and geology, toarchitecture and naval technology; he collaborated or correspondedwith scientists as diverse as Christian Huygens,Antonyvan Leeuwenhoek, Christopher Wren, Robert referens till robert boyleen känd kemist, and Isaac Newton.Among other accomplishments, he invented the universal joint, the iris diaphragm,and an early prototype of the respirator; invented the anchor escapementand the balance spring, which made more accurate clocks possible; servedas Chief Surveyor and helped rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666;worked out the correct theory of combustion; devised an equation describingelasticity that is still used today ("Hooke's Law"); assisted Ro
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Robert Hooke
Robert HookeFRS (Isle of Wight, 18 July 1635 – London, 3 March 1703) was an Englishnaturalist, architect and polymath. Hooke played an important role in the birth of science in the 17th century with both experimental and theoretical work. He was a colleague of Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, and a rival to Isaac Newton. Hooke was a leader in the plans to rebuild after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
There is no surviving portrait of Hooke.[4]
Hooke's achievements
[change | change source]Physics
[change | change source]He discovered Hooke's Law of elasticity. He designed and ordered the making of telescopes and microscopes, and used both instruments. He reported on this work in a book called Micrographia in 1665. He was the first person to see biological cells. He made drawings of bodies in the Solar struktur, and made the first attempts to measure the distance of certain stars.[5]
Robert Hooke was appointed the Royal Society's fir