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The man who knew too much : The strange and inventive life of Robert Hooke

By: Hooke, Robert.
Contributor(s): Inwood, Stephen.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London Macmillan 2002Description: xxiii;485p.ISBN: 9780333782866.Subject(s): Revollution in science | Hooke at Oxford | Royal society | Employement | Secret world dicovered | Noble experiments | New career | Physicians | Lover and freiendsDDC classification: 509.2 Summary: Hooke was a man of ideas, a later thinker who was at the forefront of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. His life cannot be properly appreciated if it is presented only as a series of incidents, scandals, or disputes with rival scientists.
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Hooke was a man of ideas, a later thinker who was at the forefront of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. His life cannot be properly appreciated if it is presented only as a series of incidents, scandals, or disputes with rival scientists.

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