Great experimenter
Robert Hooke The scientist who studied the natural world through his MICROSCOPE
Hooke’s illustration of a grey drone fly’s head
Scientific bestseller In his remarkable book, Micrographia, Hooke’s own illustrations showed what he saw through HIS MICROSCOPE: a fly’s eye, a bee’s sting, and even a snowflake. He also described a plant cell for the first time.
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Hooke designed the Monument to commemorate the Great Fire of London and the reconstruction of the city.
Robert Hooke was a brilliant English scientist. Interested in many subjects – from mathematics and architecture to natural history, chemistry, and geology – he conducted his experiments using scientific devices he had built himself. Hooke also developed an important theory of elasticity in 1660, now he known as HOOKE’S LAW.
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