Robert Hooke
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 321 years ago |
Born | Freshwater |
United Kingdom | |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Structures | Monument to the Great Fire of London |
Date of birth | July 18,1635 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Nationality | English |
Discovered | Gamma Arietis |
Parents | John Hooke |
Cecily Gyles | |
Designed | St. Paul's Cathedral |
Royal Observatory Greenwich | |
Ragley Hall | |
Ragley Hall, Park & Gardens | |
Books | Micrographia |
Introduction to scientific inference | |
Philosophical Experiments and Observations | |
Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes and Subterraneous Eruptions | |
Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon | |
Date of died | March 3,1703 |
Education | Wadham College |
Westminster School | |
Christ Church | |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Downwards | Robert Hooke |
England's Leonardo | |
Known for | Hooke's law |
Microscopy | |
Influenc | Richard Busby |
Academ advisor | Robert Boyle |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 893638 |
Robert Hooke Life story
Robert Hooke FRS was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of the first two scientists to discover microorganisms in 1665 using a compound microscope that he built himself, the other scientist being Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1674.