The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
Subtitle: The Man Who Measured London
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: February 3, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780060538972
First sentence: "On Saturday, 10 April 1697, a little less than five years before his death, Robert Hooke sat down with 'a small Pocket-Diary', specially purchased for the purpose, to write his autobiography: I began this Day to write the History of my own Life, wherein I "