Robert Hooke: Tercentennial StudiesMichael Cooper, Michael Cyril William Hunter Long overshadowed by his contemporaries Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke's own contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being recognised. This volume brings together a comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of Hooke's life, thought and artistry. |
Contents
Frontispiece Memorial to Hooke in Westminster Abbey | 6 |
graphical evaluation of orbital motion | 12 |
Final Thoughts | 33 |
Robert Hooke as an Astronomer | 49 |
of London 1667 | 55 |
Instruments and Ingenuity | 65 |
Hookes Design for a Driven Equatorial Mounting | 77 |
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Graphic Technologies | 123 |
Hookes Ideas of the Terraqueous Globe and a Theory | 135 |
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Hooke and Bedlam | 153 |
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The Mechanick Artist in Late SeventeenthCentury English | 181 |
Gentleman of Science | 203 |
Hooke and Westminster | 219 |
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