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Jun 25, 2024 · Robert Hooke (born July 18 [July 28, New Style], 1635, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England—died March 3, 1703, London) was an English physicist who discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke’s law, and who did research in a remarkable variety of fields.
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He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound microscope that he designed. [7] Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to became one of the most important scientists of his time. [8]
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- The Royal Society
- Observations and Discoveries
- Discovery of The Cell
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Robert Hooke was born July 18, 1635, in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England, the son of the vicar of Freshwater John Hooke and his second wife Cecily Gates. His health was delicate as a child, so Robert was kept at home until after his father died. In 1648, when Hooke was 13, he went to London and was first apprenticed...
The Royal Society for Promoting Natural History (or Royal Society) was founded in November 1660 as a group of like-minded scholars. It was not associated with a particular university but rather funded under the patronage of the British king Charles II. Members during Hooke's day included Boyle, the architect Christopher Wren, and the natural philos...
Hooke was, like many of the members of the Royal Society, wide-reaching in his interests. Fascinated by seafaring and navigation, Hooke invented a depth sounder and water sampler. In September 1663, he began keeping daily weather records, hoping that would lead to reasonable weather predictions. He invented or improved all five basic meteorological...
Hooke is best known today for his identification of the cellular structure of plants. When he looked at a sliver of cork through his microscope, he noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it. Hooke believed the cells had served as containers for the "noble juices" or "fibrous threads" of the once-living cork tree. He thought these cells existed only in ...
Hooke was a brilliant scientist, a pious Christian, and a difficult and impatient man. What kept him from true success was a lack of interest in mathematics. Many of his ideas inspired and were completed by others in and outside of the Royal Society, such as the Dutch pioneer microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), navigator and geograph...
Egerton, Frank N. "A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 16: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London." Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America86.2 (2005): 93–101. Print.Jardine, Lisa. "Monuments and Microscopes: Scientific Thinking on a Grand Scale in the Early Royal Society." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London55.2 (2001): 289–308. Print.Nakajima, Hideto. "Robert Hooke's Family and His Youth: Some New Evidence from the Will of the Rev. John Hooke." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London48.1 (1994): 11–16. Print.Whitrow, G. J. "Robert Hooke." Philosophy of Science5.4 (1938): 493–502. Print.Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a 17th-century natural philosopher who discovered cells in cork and coined the term. He also invented instruments, studied weather, and worked with the Royal Society and Isaac Newton.
Oct 19, 2023 · Initially discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, the cell has a rich and interesting history that has ultimately given way to many of today’s scientific advancements.
Sep 21, 2023 · Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was an English scientist, architect, and natural philosopher who became a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
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- Robert Hooke is known for his experiments and technical innovations, particularly with microscopes and navigational aids, during the Scientific Rev...
- Isaac Newton was mad at Robert Hooke, both members of the Royal Society, because Hooke accused him of plagiarism and Newton refused to acknowledge...
- Robert Hooke did not invent the microscope, but he did make several technical improvements to it, such as the aperture and the way the specimen was...
Jun 24, 2021 · Hooke's most famous work was his 1665 discovery of the living cell. Though scientists had invented the microscope decades earlier, Hooke's innovation dramatically improved the...
Apr 2, 2014 · Major Discoveries and Achievements. A true polymath, the topics Hooke covered during his career include comets, the motion of light, the rotation of Jupiter, gravity, human memory and the...
