Robert Hooke and the English renaissance
By: edited by Paul Kent and Allan Chapman.
Contributors: Kent, P. W.; Chapman, Allan, 1946-
Publisher: Gracewing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Leominster]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Hooke, Robert, -- 1635-1703.; Science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robert Hooke : London's Leonardo / Edward C. Hambly; title: Robert Hooke : the man and his ideas / Allan Chapman; title: Hooke's early life at Oxford / Paul W. Kent; title: Hooke and the Royal Society / John Enderby; title: Hooke's concepts of the earth in space / Ellen Tan Drake; title: Hooke's telescopic observations of solar system bodies / Allan Chapman; title: The impact of Hooke's Micrographia and its influence on microscopy / Gerard L'E. Turner; title: Springs, and Hooke's mechanical genius / Allan A. Mills; title: The civic virtue of Robert Hooke / Michael A.R. Cooper.