England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780750309875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 330 str.

Allan Chapman; A. Chapman; Chapman Chapman

Opis

Despite the many contributions of Hooke (1635-1703) to the new experimental science, his reputation has been eclipsed by arch-rival Sir Isaac Newton. As part of a recognition effort begun on the 300th anniversary of his death, British science historian/television science show host Chapman (Oxford) traces Hooke's life and prodigious career. While th

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Early Life: the Prodigy from the Isle of Wight. Breathing, Burning and Flying: Hooke's Scientific Apprenticeship. The Curator of Experiments. Microscopes and Meteorology. Hooke and the Astronomers. Medicine and Physiology. Surveyor to the City of London. A World Turned Upside Down: Hooke's Geological Ideas. A World of Mechanism. A Realm of Vibration: of Flight, Spring, Watches and Music. "A Large Window...into the Shop of Nature": Hooke and Light. From Pendulums to Planets: Experiments and the Understanding of Gravity. Friends, Mistresses, Religion and Politics: Hooke's Inner World. Death and Historical Legacy. Endnotes. Index

O autorze

Chapman, Allan