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Robert Hooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hooke's collaboration with Christopher Wren was particularly fruitful and yielded and The Royal Observatory at Greenwich, The Monument (to the Great Fire) and St Paul's Cathedral, whose dome uses a method of construction conceived by Hooke. Robert Hooke is one of many real-life personages featured in the historical adventure novels The Baroque Cycle by American author Neal Stephenson; Hooke's skill in the sciences and surgical arts are used to great (and often darkly comedic) effect throughout the cycle. In February 2006, a long-lost copy of Hooke's handwritten notes from several decades' Royal Society meetings was discovered in a cupboard in Hampshire, and the balance-spring controversy appears by evidence contained in those notes to be settled in favor of Hooke's claim. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Hooke   (1464 words)

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Timeline - Robert Hooke Hooke's father, John Hooke, took an active role in Robert's early education until he entered the Westminster School at the age of thirteen following his father's suicide. Hooke dabbled widely in the sciences and arts and is often referred to as the founder of meteorological sciences (he proposed setting zero degrees Centigrade as the freezing point of water) and a pioneer in early geology, especially with regard to fossils and crystals. Hooke followed the publication with a series of lectures on light to the Royal Society and was first to describe thin film phenomena and the associated periodicity using membranes and thin plates of mica. micro.magnet.fsu.edu /optics/timeline/people/hooke.html   (1464 words)

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Seeing Further, The Legacy of Robert Hooke Robert Hooke's genius is hidden in shadows created partly by Hooke himself, but largely by Isaac Newton, a man who could not speak without contempt for Hooke, even long after Hooke's death, and who may well have taken steps to obliterate much of Hooke's contributions to science. Among Hooke's contributions are the correct formulation of the theory of elasticity, the kinetic hypothesis of gases and the nature of combustion. Robert Hooke was a significant influence in the advancement of science as well as Newton. starryskies.com /~kmiles/spec/hooks.html   (3553 words)

Rocky Road: Robert Hooke Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight in 1635. Hooke accurately observed that, depending on where they were found, fossils varied in hardness and color, and also noted that while some fossils were complete and pristine, others were badly broken. Hooke, perhaps smoldering over his own upstaged scientific instruments, poured scorn on Newton's paper, and Newton was so humiliated that he refused to try to publish the paper again until after Hooke's death. www.strangescience.net /hooke.htm   (2011 words)

Robert Hooke Hooke's image of a flea is famous; perhaps less well-known is his invention of the term 'cell' in a biological context as a result of his studies of cork. Robert Hooke was one of the most brilliant and versatile of seventeenth-century English scientists, but he is also one of the lesser known; his persona and his contributions are far outweighed in public perception by those of Newton and of Wren. Robert Hooke was born at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, son of John Hooke, curate at All Saints' Church. www.rod.beavon.clara.net /robert_hooke.htm   (1403 words)

The Tragedy of Robert Hooke's Brother. John Aubrey mentions that John Hooke senior " had two or three brothers all Ministers " and that they came from " the Family of Hooke, of Hooke in Hampshire,.., a very ancient family and in that place for three or more hundred yeares ". John Hooke) was a rogue and that all the Corporation were a parcell of beggarly fellows and that the Sergeants did on the Satterdaies go about to buy carretts for the Mayor dinner the Sundaies ". John Hooke's suicide is almost certainly of the 'honour' type, committed so as to avoid some impending dishonour or an already existing one. freespace.virgin.net /ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/sggg.htm   (1403 words)

MayflowerHistory.com John Hooke was born about 1607, probably in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Jeremy D. Bangs discovered an apprenticeship record in Leiden, Holland, dated 7 January 1619/20, showing that John Hooke was then twelve years old, and that his birth parents were John and Alice (Thompson) Hooke. His father John had died, Alice had remarried, and they apprenticed young John to Isaac Allerton for the period of 12 years. www.mayflowerhistory.com /Passengers/JohnHooke.php   (1403 words)

Hooke Hooke did indeed come up with a vast range of brilliant ideas many of which were claimed by others not because they wished to steal them from him, but rather because Hooke never followed through developing his ideas into building comprehensive theories. Robert Hooke's father was John Hooke who was a curate at All Saints Church in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Hooke, however, seemed unable to give a mathematical proof of his conjectures or perhaps unwilling to devote his time to this type of pursuit. www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Hooke.html   (3147 words)

Robert Hooke Hooke wrote to Isaac Newton in 1679 asking for his opinion:- of the compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent (inertial motion) and an attractive motion towards the central body... Hooke is most famous for his experiment which used a series of telescopes to design a "telegraphic" visual communication system, which worked over great distances. It is important to note that Hooke took part in the great Oxford movement, which resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society, and in fact his "Micrographia," was renowned as one of the early gems of the Society. www.ilt.columbia.edu /projects/bluetelephone/html/hooke.html   (809 words)

Robert Hooke Hooke's language may be archaic, but his meaning is quite modern: Dead wood could be turned to stone by the action of water rich in dissolved minerals, which would deposit minerals throughout the wood. A brief biography of Hooke, with a listing of his contributions to mathematics, is part of the resources in the history of mathematics maintained at the School of Mathematics of Trinity College, Dublin. Hooke realized, two and a half centuries before Darwin, that the fossil record documents changes among the organisms on the planet, and that species have both appeared and gone extinct throughout the history of life on Earth. www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/hooke.html   (1223 words)

Hooke: biography by John Sutton Hooke’s health, both physical and psychological, was fragile, and in the interests of self-observation he recorded all the physic he prescribed himself, as well as details of his every sexual experience. Hooke’s disputes with Newton over light, mechanics, and the theory of planetary motion, in particular, have dominated assessments of his place in the history of science. Hooke always saw knowledge of nature as a sure way to uphold religious orthodoxy, and scriptural exegesis plays a significant part, for example, in his outstanding work in geology and Earth history. www.phil.mq.edu.au /staff/jsutton/Hooke.htm   (1223 words)

cummins - pafg463 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File John Stevens was born 28 Dec 1670 in Salisbury, Essex, MA. John Hunt [ Parents ] died Abt 1732. John Stevens was born 5 Jan 1693/1694 in Hampton, MA. www.cyberancestors.com /cummins/pafg463.htm   (1223 words)

ROBERT HOOKE - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT HOOKE HOOKE, ROBERT (1635-1703), English experimental philosopher, was born on the 18th of July 1635 at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, where his father, John Hooke, was minister of the parish. The death, in 1687, of his niece, Mrs Grace Hooke, who had lived with him for many years, caused him deep affliction; a law-suit with Sir John Cutler about his salary (decided, howevei, in his favor in 1696) occasioned him prolonged anxiety; and the repeated anticipation of his discoveries inspired him with a morbid jealousy. He fulfilled the duties of secretary to the Royal Society during five years after the death of Henry Oldenburg in 1677, publishing in 1681 1682 the papers read before that body under the title of Philosophical Collections. www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOOKE_ROBERT.htm   (1223 words)

Milton Keynes - by Professor Michael Cooper- Religion - MKWeb Hooke’s passion to understand the natural world was insatiable, fuelled by a strong conviction of the moral value of observation and measurement. Hooke’s angry outbursts against what he saw as unjust criticism of him usually quickly subsided, but his friendships were warm and long-lasting. Hooke’s Westminster education combined the mental and physical rigour in traditional learning with practical mechanics. www.mkweb.co.uk /religion/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=17120&r=44196   (1223 words)

Hooke, Dorset, England The northern part of the village is clustered around a large pond with Hooke Court, a 17th century manor house, on the hill above. The church of St. Giles is unusual in that it reverses the common pattern in the development of Dorset churches. January 8, 1329 a Grant by William, son of Sonota de Hoke, to John de Berkedene of a 1/2 furlong of land and 1 acre of meadow in Westhoke (Dorset), and all his land of Syghenepytte (Dorset) which he had of the gift and feoffment of Roger le Hore of Westhoke. www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/place/H250.htm   (1223 words)

The Galileo Project Hooke was employed as an architect by a number of private patrons, including Boyle's sister, Lady Ranelagh. Hooke did not take a B.A. He was nominated for the M.A. by Lord Clarendon, the Chancellor of the university, 1663; I am not going to list it. Hooke's first publication was a pamphlet on capillary action in 1661. galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/hooke.html   (1099 words)

The Tragedy of Robert Hooke's Brother. From the inventory taken on the death of John Hooke senior, it is clear that the house and its contents were relatively modest, as befitted, perhaps, a clergyman. The family lived in a property on what today is known as Hooke Hill, close to the parish Church. Grace Hooke was the daughter of John Hooke. freespace.virgin.net /ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/sggg.htm   (6936 words)

England's Leonardo - Robert Hooke Robert Boyle, and Robert Hooke, however, were probably the first scientists to encounter this fact of life, for while they were not the first men to perform experiments, they were the first to undertake whole courses of experiments and, in Hooke's case, conduct them in disciplines as diverse as physics and physiology. Not until Robert Hooke published his own microscopical researches, in 1665, was it made manifest to the scientific world that the microscope revealed an organized realm of nature that was as diverse in its structures and as vast in its scale as the telescopic universe. As a boy Hooke was not strong, and his father, who was reluctant to subject him to the rigours of a boarding school, educated him at home. www.rod.beavon.clara.net /leonardo.htm   (13364 words)

Robert Hooke Robert Hooke was perhaps one of the most important scientists from the 17th century. Robert Hooke's remains were exhumed and reburied somewhere in North London in the 18th century, nut no one seems to know exactly where. Hooke's Law and his combustion theory are still used by today's scientists. www.roberthooke.com   (416 words)

hooke.html John Hooke was apprenticed to Isaac Allerton for a period of twelve years on 7 January 1619/20, at the age of twelve. John Hooke came with Isaac Allerton on the Mayflower, and died the first winter. He was apprenticed after his father John Hooke died, and the apprenticeship record was signed by his mother Alice Thompson. members.aol.com /calebj/hooke.html   (416 words)

Robert Hooke - Biography Pt.1 Hooke studies the nature of air and its relationship to respiration and combustion, the laws of falling bodies, improvements to diving-bells, telegraphy, the weather, he sets the thermometrical zero at the freezing point of water, and also invents a machine for cutting gear wheels. In October of 1648, John Hooke, afflicted by many illnesses such as jaundice and palsy, decides he has had enough suffering and hangs himself; the 13 year old Robert goes to London to study painting under Sir Peter Lely, but an allergy to paint fumes forces him to abandon painting. obert Hooke was born on July 18th, 1635, in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the son of The Rev. John Hooke, curate of Freshwater. roberthooke.com /robert_hooke_biography_001.htm   (416 words)

Hooke Hooke invented the conical pendulum and was the first person to build a Gregorian reflecting telescope. Hooke came to Westminster School during the first decade of Dr Busby's 55 year incumbency as Head Master. Hooke's reputation suffered during his lifetime and beyond from his many controversies with other scientists over www.nd.edu /~dharley/HistIdeas/Hooke.html   (416 words)

Gresham Homepage Hooke's terraqeous globe and a theory of evolution How can we assess the scientific value of Hooke's www.gresham.ac.uk /hooke/keynote.htm   (416 words)

British-Motorsport.Co.Uk - photos of motorsport, Dorset, wildlife, landscape, fireworks, sports, steam fairs and other events. Occupying the third highest point in Dorset, this iron-age structure was not built for regular occupation as few signs of domestic life have been found (other than a stone-age hut); it was probably for irregular defence of the local land. This wood is tucked away on the south-east edge of a village in North Dorset and is entered via a 200m footpath across a field and a stile. Just across the North Dorset border is this large body of water, filled with trout and enjoyed by members of the yachting club. www.british-motorsport.co.uk /dorset/gallery.html   (416 words)

Introduction Hooke was a considerable scientist who became a considerable architect and then returned to science. A brief biography of Robert Hooke FRS- scientist, inventor, architect - a man who, despite much ill-health, energetically pursued a huge variety of interests in science, technology and architecture, and who did so much to promote the Royal Society in its early years. Hooke's famous work on microscopy was published in 1665. www.roberthooke.org.uk /intro.htm   (244 words)

Robert Hooke MetaFilter Hooke's law is that classic experiment from physics class were you relate the displacement of a spring to the force being placed on it. I recently got interested in researching Robert Hooke on discovering he'll be featured as a character in Neal Stephenson's 'Quicksilver', the upcoming prequel to 1999's 'Cryptonomicon'. ''Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time. www.metafilter.com /mefi/27450   (207 words)

Nathaniel Hooke of John Hooke (1655-1712), sarjeant at law, of whom a son, Nathaniel (d.1763), wrote a History of Rome. Glasgow and Cambridge, joined in the Monmouth Rising, conspired with Davners to raise an insurrection in London, and was exempted from the general pardon; surrendered and converted to Catholicism in 1688; joined Jacobite army at Boyne, and later entered Irish regiment in France. www.pgil-eirdata.org /html/pgil_datasets/authors/h/Hooke,N/life.htm   (207 words)

CHAPTER IV John Herman Merivale wrote "Harry Drury will, with God’s permission, present to the families of Cockwood and Barton Place the most beautiful woman, without exception, that I ever beheld; and one who, from her unaffected modesty and gentleness of manner, is likely to conciliate affection at least as much as she inspires admiration." Mrs. John Racton’s will was dated 3 August 1664, and gives to Elinor his wife his Parsonage of Walberton and Glebe and Tithes for life, remainder to Son William Racton. John Drury conveyed by fine 9 Feb. 1683/4 to Robert North, gent and William Jeanes, gent the Holt House property consisting of six messuages, gardens and orchards, 400 acres land, 90 acres meadow, 720 acres pasture, 400 acres of broom and heath andc. www.genealogysource.com /druryhistpt4.htm   (207 words)

The Grant of Arms of Lachlan MacTavish of Dunardry, 17 Apr 1793, by the Lord Lyon (John Hooke Campbell) The Grant of Arms of Lachlan MacTavish of Dunardry, 17 Apr 1793, by the Lord Lyon (John Hooke Campbell) www.mactavish.org /noblepast/L-LM1.html   (207 words)

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