The posthumous works of Robert Hooke containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society.
By: Illustrated with sculptures.  To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments. Publish'd by Richard Waller.
Contributors: Waller, Richard, ed.
Publisher: Printed by S. Smith and B. Walford
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
Subjects: Science.
Notes: Errors in paging.
The dedication is to Sir Isaac Newton.
Table of contents: title: I. The present deficiency of natural philosophy ... with the methods of rendering it more certain and beneficial.; title: II. The nature, motion and effects of light ... particularly that of the sun and comets.; title: III. An hypothetical explication of memory; how the organs made use of by the mind in its operation may be mechanically understood.; title: IV. An hypothesis and explication of the cause of gravity, or gravitation, magnetism, &c.; title: V. Discourses of earthquakes, their causes and effects, and histories of several; to which are annext, physical explications of several of the fables in Ovid's Metamorphoses, very different from other mythologick interpreters.; title: VI. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy, with the descriptions of several new and useful instruments and contrivances; the whole full of curious disquisitions and experiments.