Robert Hooke

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 Hooke’s Micrographia revealed the natural world as never before, while his research helped to pave the way for better scientific devices. How he changed… the worldRobert Hooke theory of elasticity in 1660, now known as HOOKE’S LAW.

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. By the way… After the Great Fire of London in 1666, I worked with British architect Christopher Wren to rebuild the city.