London's Leonardo : the life and work of Robert Hooke
London's Leonardo : the life and work of Robert Hooke
/ Jim Bennett ... [et al.]
- Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2003.
- xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
The seventeenth-century polymath Robert Hooke has never achieved the recogniton he deserves. As Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Surveyor to the City of London, author, and prolific inventor, Hooke at once dazzles us and challenges the boundaries of modern expertise. In London's Leonardo, four leading experts have contributed their itersecting points of view on Hooke's career, his instruments, his scientific philosophy, and his personal ife, to create a narrative as multi-faceted and compelling as Robert Hooke himself.
9780198525790
2003545106
Hooke, Robert , 1635-1703
Scientists---Great Britain----Biography
Scholars----Great Britain----Biography
Science----History----Great Britain----17th century
Q143.H7 / L66 2003
92 HOO
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
The seventeenth-century polymath Robert Hooke has never achieved the recogniton he deserves. As Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Surveyor to the City of London, author, and prolific inventor, Hooke at once dazzles us and challenges the boundaries of modern expertise. In London's Leonardo, four leading experts have contributed their itersecting points of view on Hooke's career, his instruments, his scientific philosophy, and his personal ife, to create a narrative as multi-faceted and compelling as Robert Hooke himself.
9780198525790
2003545106
Hooke, Robert , 1635-1703
Scientists---Great Britain----Biography
Scholars----Great Britain----Biography
Science----History----Great Britain----17th century
Q143.H7 / L66 2003
92 HOO
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