Preface; List of Illustrations; 1. Hooke's Career; 2. Hooke's Instruments; 3. Hooke the Natural Philsopher; 4. Hooke the Man: His Diary and His Health; Notes; Index
Jim Bennett is Director of the Museum of the History of Science,
University of Oxford. He is author of The Mathematical Science of
Christopher Wren (Cambridge University Press, 2002), The Divided
Circle (Phaidon-Christie's, 1987), and Church, State and Astronomy
in Ireland (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1990).
Michael Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Surveying at
City University, London. He is author and contributor (as M. A. R.
Cooper) to books, papers and conference proceedings on
instrumentation and mathematical modelling for engineering
surveying, close-range photogrammetry, and machine vision. Michael
Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of
London. His books include The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and
Second Sight in late 17th-century Scotland (Boydell Press, 2001),
Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (Boydell Press, 2000), and
Preserving the Past: the Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain (Sutton
Publishing, 1996). He is Editor-in Chief of The Works of Robert
Boyle (14 vols., 1999-2000, with Edward B. Davis) and The
Correspondence of Robert Boyle (6 vols., 2001, with Antonio
Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe; Pickering & Chatto). Lisa
Jardine is a full-time academic, who combines a scholarly career as
a historian with a high media profile. She is currently Professor
of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and an
Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Her scholarly books
include From Humanism to the Humanities (with Anthony Grafton),
Erasmus, Man of Letters, and Reading Shakespeare Historically. She
has published more than 50 full-length articles in refereed
academic journals. She has also written two history books for the
general market: Worldly Goods (Macmillan, 1996) and Ingenious
Pursuits (Little, Brown 1999). Her biography of Sir Christopher
Wren, entitled On A Grander Scale: The Career of Christopher Wren
was published by HarperCollins in September 2002
"This fascinating book aims to rectify the lack of recognition accorded to a famous scientist of the 17th century, Robert Hooke, who had the misfortune to work in the time of Isaac NewtonThe author provides detailed accounts of the full range of his work. This book is profusely illustrated and has excellent chapter endnotes, very good bibliography, and serviceable index."--CHOICE, N. Sadanand"London's Leonardo reevaluates Hooke's achievements infour detailed, well-illustrated, and thoroughly referencedreviews of different facets of his life and work.London's Leonardo is a fascinating read.--Quarterly Review of Biology
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