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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]
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.
Sep 21, 2023 · Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was an English scientist, architect, and natural philosopher who became a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
Jan 13, 2020 · Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635–March 3, 1703) was a 17th-century "natural philosopher"—an early scientist—noted for a variety of observations of the natural world. But perhaps his most notable discovery came in 1665 when he looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and discovered cells.
Robert Hooke was a Renaissance Man – a jack of all trades, and a master of many. He wrote one of the most significant scientific books ever written, Micrographia, and made contributions to human knowledge spanning Architecture, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Surveying & Map Making, and the design and construction of scientific instruments.
Jun 24, 2021 · Robert Hooke was a 17th-century scientist who contributed to our knowledge of mathematics, mechanics, biology and astronomy. Hooke is perhaps most famous for discovering the living cell, but he...
Jul 17, 2019 · Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University. Considering his accomplishments, it’s a surprise that Robert Hooke isn’t more renowned....
1635 - 1703. Renaissance inventor and experimenter who advanced physics, physiology and microscopy. Wellcome Collection. Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous...
Robert Hooke: the man who knew everything. Neither the smallest nor the largest objects in the known Universe escaped the brilliant Hooke’s attention. By the mid-17th century, much of what underpinned Western thought was being questioned and replaced by a new way of thinking based on experimentation and observation.
Robert Hooke (28 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) The cover of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in 1665. In addition to illustrations of insects, snowflakes, and his famous slice of cork, he also described how to make a microscope like the one he used. The year was 1665.
