England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution

by Allan Chapman

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All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire.

England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering...Read more
  • ISBN10 0750309873
  • ISBN13 9780750309875
  • Publish Date 30 November 2004
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Institute of Physics Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 360
  • Language English
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