Nature: Robert Hooke as Geologist and Evolutionist
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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an English polymath who was active as a physicist, 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 h…
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science · English polymath (1635–1703) · architect · astronomer · physicist · diarist · university teacher · philosopher · inventor · biologist · naturalist · also Robert Hooke, Hooke
Born 18 July 1635 · Died 3 March 1703 · Q46830
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2024· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy
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2020· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Robert Hooke
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2019· 2 entries
The Conversation: Robert Hooke: The ‘English Leonardo’ who was a 17th‑century scientific superstar
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Larry Griffing, an associate professor in Biology at Texas A&M University, proposed that a portrait by Mary Beale of an unknown sitter and referred to as Portrait of a Mathematician – is actually of Hooke, noting the phy
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2013· 1 entry
Scientific American: July 18, 1635: Robert Hooke - The Last Virtuoso of Silly Science
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2012· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Robert Hooke, Enlightenment Scientist
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2007· 1 entry
The Guardian: Lisa Jardine reveals how her interest in Robert Hooke gave her a taste for 'hands-on' history
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2006· 1 entry
The Guardian: Letters: Keeping a watch on Hooke and Huygens
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2003· 4 entries
The Guardian: Observer review: The Curious Life of Robert Hooke by Lisa Jardine
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The Guardian: Review: The Curious Life of Robert Hooke by Lisa Jardine
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The amateur painter Rita Greer embarked on a project to memorialise Hooke and produce credible images of him, both painted and drawn, which she believes match Aubrey's and Waller's descriptions of him
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Historian Lisa Jardine conjectured that a recently discovered portrait was of Hooke, but this proposal was disproved by William B
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1935· 1 entry
Revealed previously unknown details about his social and familial relationships
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1835· 1 entry
Charles Lyell, the Scottish geologist and associate of Charles Darwin, wrote of Hooke in Principles of Geology: "His treatise
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1703· 1 entry
Died 1703-03-03.
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1677· 1 entry
Career landmark: secretary of the Royal Society (1677–1683).
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1663· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1663).
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Studied at University of Oxford (1663).
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1655· 1 entry
Studied at Christ Church (1653–1655).
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1653· 1 entry
Studied at Westminster School (1648–1653).
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1635· 1 entry
Born 1635-07-18.
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