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London's Leonardo : the life and work of Robert Hooke / Jim Bennett ... [et al.]

Contributor(s):

Bennett, J.A . (James A.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2003.Description: xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780198525790

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 HOO

LOC classification:

Q143.H7 L66 2003

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 HOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		042927

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.

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