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Robert Hooke FRS ( / hʊk /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5] .
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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- English physicist Robert Hooke is known for his discovery of the law of elasticity (Hooke’s law), for his first use of the word cell in the sense o...
- Robert Hooke was born on July 18 (July 28, New Style), 1635, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England.
- In 1665 Robert Hooke published what would become his most famous work, Micrographia (”Small Drawings”). In it he included his studies and illustrat...
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My hypothesis was that the portrait should show someone illustrating a mathematical principle for which Newton claimed credit – that could hint at a motive for why Newton might have suppressed a painting of a scientific rival. The best candidate for the artist was the well-known portraitist Mary Beale, whom Hooke knew and visited, although there’s ...
Beale painted a partial view of a device on the table to the man’s left. Completing the model reveals that it is an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system – depicting Mercury, Venus and Earth elliptically orbiting the Sun. It’s a physical version of the drawing of elliptical motion also displayed on the table. To me, it provides further su...
If this is indeed Hooke, the portrait provides an iconic image. So where has it been for more than 300 years? I turned to the rumor that Newton could have been involved in the portrait’s disappearance. The two scientists did have a quarrelsome history. One big clash was over the nature of light. Hooke explained his experiments on color as light tra...
Sep 4, 2020 · The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s Micrographia, is an etching of the cells that make up a piece of cork. It’s sliced two ways—across ...
Sep 19, 2023 · A posthumous portrait of the celebrated scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. Painted by Rita Greer in 2009.
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