Robert hooke scientist biography books
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Review
Of On A Grander Scale (2002): 'A wonderful book which looks set to be the definitive life of Wren for a long time to come' --Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday 'Jardine writes with ease, style, enthusiasm and humanity' --Kerry Downes, TLS 'A full and fascinating biography...Jardine is particularly good on the extraordinary width of Wren's interests and achievements' --Antonia Fraser, New Statesman 'A great fist of an intellectual biography' --Andrew Saint, Guardian 'Imaginative, fluent and scholarly' --Linda Colley, The Times An 'extraordinary story...told with relish by Lisa Jardine, whose qualifications for the task are exactly right, for it needs a rare combination of scientific knowledge, historical skill, and narrative power...It was a life of quiet courage and great achievement, and Jardine's celebration of it does it ample justice' --AC Grayling, Independent on Sunday 'As we would expect from her, Jardine is excellent at placing Wren in the historical and intellectual con
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Robert Hooke
English forskare, 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 ung 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 bygd 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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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635-1703
Pan 2003, 497 pages.
This is a fascinating book. Sheer detail brings Hooke's remarkable career into sharp focus.
Inwood is not a prose stylist, I would venture to say. Perhaps it is due to the nature of Hooke's career -- he pursued many themes for a long time -- but the text comes to be rather repetitive. List-like. But my interest never flagged because of the subject, because of the pains taken over the research, and because of the enormous significance of Hooke's work.
The cover of The Man Who Knew Too Much by Stephen Inwood.
Hooke was one of the key figures of the 17th century, at least in England. He left no field of natural philosophy untouched, yes -- but was also second only to Wren in shaping the rebuilt London that rose after the great fire. His contribut