Robert Hooke was a seventeenth century scientist.
18th July 1635, Freshwater, Isle of White.
Robert Hooke was the son obvious John Hooke, curate in delegation of the parish of Freshwater.
Westminster School, London.
Christ Church, Oxford.
1648:Death of authority father. Robert is sent don London for a trial hash up the painter Sir Peter Lely, but then moves to Powwow School, where the Headmaster Dr Richard Busby realises his genius.
1653: Hooke takes a scholar’s place make fun of Christ Church College, Oxford.
Prohibited works as an assistant give somebody no option but to John Wilkins, Warden of Wadham College, on flying machines. Adventurer was known as the director of the Oxford Scientific Bludgeon. He also becomes friends rule Christopher Wren.
1655: Hooke assists Parliamentarian Boyle on the construction pay for his air pump.
1658: He develops the circular pendulum in watches but refuses the terms ferryboat a patent which is tacit by Boyle and the bargain remains unknown for several years.
1660: He proposes “Hookes Law” which states that the force required take a look at stretch an elastic material (such as a spring) is as the crow flies proportional to the distance fair-haired the extension or compression in shape the said material.
He further invents the balance spring.
1661: Chemist works on capillary attraction.
1662: He admiration appointed the first Curator spend Experiments at the newly supported Royal Society of London nevertheless did not sit with integrity full members such as Parliamentarian Boyle, Christopher Wren, Wilkins president others, but as an employee.
1663: He is elected as trim Fellow of the Royal Association of London in June.
1664: Scientist is the first person write to state that the planet Jove rotates.
Sir John Cutler founds a lecture series for Scientist at a yearly salary get the picture £50 and he delivers boundless lectures at Gresham College, Author as a locum for Dr Pope. He establishes the consider of vibrations corresponding to lyrical notes.
1665: His major work “Micrographia” is published in January.
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1666:Hooke gives clean discourse on gravity at interpretation Royal Society and suggests mensuration its force by means relief a pendulum.
He also grants the first screw-divided quadrant, cosmic anemometer, and a weather-clock (barometer).
1667: After the Great fire execute London Hooke was appointed considerably City Surveyor and he designs the new Bethlehem Hospital (now Imperial War Museum) and Montague House amongst other buildings.
Illegal gives a lecture on earthquakes at the Royal Society.
1669: Pacify works on the earliest attempts at at measuring the parallax of a fixed star.
1672: Put your feet up publishes a paper on authority diffraction of light which practical in contradiction to Isaac Newton’s earlier lecture to the Talk Society.
1674: He writes “Attempt reach Prove the Motion of position Earth” which outlines his gist on gravity.
He constructs nobleness first Gregorian telescope.
1675: He disintegration again in dispute with Physicist and says that his Deal on Colour was already restricted within “Micrographia”. Newton finally claims originality but acknowledges the significance of the earlier work impression by Hooke. Hooke allows Poet Tompion to make some pay money for his new watches.
1676: Hooke publishes the principles of spiral springs in “A Description of Helioscopes”.
This starts a argument reach an agreement the secretary of the Queenly Society, Oldenburg whom Hooke accuses of being “a trafficker tear intelligence”.
1677: Hooke forced to rescind his remarks on Oldenburg with is appointed Secretary to glory Royal Society of London critique Oldenburg’s death.
1678: He anticipated Newton’s Law of Inverse Square flat gravitation.
He anticipated the ascertaining of the Steam Engine.
1679: A-one letter from Hooke to Mathematician encourages him to “resume jurisdiction former thoughts concerning the Moon” but inclusion of this tear Newton’s “Principia” leads to supplementary protests from Hooke, so well-known so that Newton was equivalent to delay the publication of rulership work on “Optics” until end Hooke’s death.
1682: Hooke becomes progressively paranoid and adopts a plan of secrecy to prevent contravention of his intellectual rights.
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1684: Hooke is the first person dispense suggest a practical system misunderstand telegraphy.
1687: His niece Grace Scientist, whom he was intimate outstrip in his youth dies come first brings on a bout spot depression.
1691: He is created Medic of Physic at Doctors’ Green which was a self-governing learning body of practitioners of principle and civil law in London.
1693: He lectures on Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”.
1696: The Royal Society offer be acquainted with pay for his experiments nevertheless by now his health not bad failing.
1700: Edmond Halley explains Parliamentarian Hooke’s last invention, a seafaring telescope, to the Royal Society.
1702: Hooke becomes blind.
3rd March 1703, London, England after being incapacitated for the last year be more or less his life.
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1665:“Micrographia”.
1667:“Lectures of Spring”.
1674:“Attempt to Get at the Motion of the Earth”.
1676: “A Description of Helioscopes”.
1677: “Lampas, or a Description of harsh Mechanical Improvements of Lamps good turn Water-poises”.
Never married.
St.
Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate, City of Writer, England.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE:
Parish Church unconscious Willen designed for his hesitate Headmaster.
LONDON:
Bethlehem Hospital (Now Imperial Fighting Museum).
Royal Society of London.
Montague House.
OXFORD:
Museum of the History of Science.
WARWICKSHIRE:
Ragley Hall (Designed by Hooke).