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Robert Hooke

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English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

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Robert Hooke was an English scientist, architect, and inventor of the 1600s who made discoveries across multiple fields including physics, biology, and astronomy. His work laid important groundwork for modern science, and he remains famous for discoveries like Hooke's Law (which describes how materials stretch and spring back) and early microscopic observations of living things.

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Born: 28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635
Died: 3 March 1703
Works: 86

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Microscopic observations
Extracts from Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon
An historical relation of the island Ceylon, in the East-Indies
The Fatal doom to the reprobate and charms of divine love to the regenerate, or, The cause and curse of excommunication
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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1810-06-08
Active to: 1856-07-29

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Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,872x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,817x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,432x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,852x
The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,233x

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Quotes

“By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible World discovered to the understanding. By this means the Heavens are open’d, and a vast number of new Stars, and new Motions, and new Productions appear in them, to which all the ancient Astronomers were utterly Strangers.”
“The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of Arches for building with the true butment necessary to each of them, a Problem which no Architectonick Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less perform'd. ...Ut pendet continaum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum, which is the Linea Catenaria.”
“Anno Domini 1658... he was sent to Christ Church in Oxford, where he had a chorister's place (in those dayes when the church musique was putt downe), which was a pretty good maintenance. He was there assistant to Dr. Thomas Willis in his chymistry; who afterwards recommended him to the honble Robert Boyle, esqre, to be usefull to him in his chymicall operations. Mr Hooke then read to him (R.B. esqre) Euclid's Elements, and made him understand Des Cartes' Philosophy.”
“Anno Domini 1662 Mr. Robert Boyle recommended Mr. Robert Hooke to be Curator of the Experiments of the Royall Society, wherin he did an admirable good worke to the Common-wealth of Learning, in recommending the fittest person in the world to them. Anno 1664 he was chosen Geometry Professour at Gresham College.”
“Anno Domini 1666 the great conflagration of London happened, and then he was chosen one of the two surveyors of the citie of London; by which he hath gott a great estate. He built Bedlam, the Physitians' College, Montague-house, the Piller on Fish-street-hill, and Theatre there; and he is much made use of in designing buildings.”
“As he is of prodigious inventive head, so is a person of great vertue and goodnes. Now when I have sayd his inventive faculty is so great, you cannot imagine his memory to be excellent, for they are like two bucketts, as one goes up, the other goes downe. He is certainly the greatest mechanick this day in the world. His head lies much more to Geometry then to Arithmetique.”

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date of birth: 1635-00-00
date of death: 1703-03-14
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Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions Of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries thereupon

Microscopic observations or, Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope

Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke ... and other eminent virtuoso's in his time with copper plates

Lectiones Cutlerianae, or a collection of lectures physical,mechanical, geographical & astronomical, made before the Royal Society on several occasions ... to which are added divers miscellaneous discourses

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Robert Hooke (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ('natural philosopher'), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]".

Hooke was a Fellow of the Royal Society and from 1662, he was its first Curator of Experiments. From 1665 to 1703, he was also Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. Hooke began his scientific career as an assistant to the physical scientist Robert Boyle. Hooke built the vacuum pumps that were used in Boyle's experiments on gas law and also conducted experiments. In 1664, Hooke identified the rotations of Mars and Jupiter. Hooke's 1665 book Micrographia, in which he coined the term cell, encouraged microscopic investigations. Investigating optics – specifically light refraction – Hooke inferred a wave theory of light. His is the first-recorded hypothesis of the cause of the expansion of matter by heat, of air's composition by small particles in constant motion that thus generate its pressure, and of heat as energy.