The Amazing Scientist known as Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke
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The Amazing Scientist Known as
Robert Hooke!
Oster, M (2001). Hooke, Robert.
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Robert Hooke was born on July 18, 1635 in Freshwater, England. He did most of his work either at home or in a science lab at school.
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Robert Hooke did not have a middle name like most people do today.
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Robert Hooke was a microscopist, physicist, experimental scientist, natural philosopher, architect, polymath, and worked in astronomy.
He also made discoveries in physics and chemistry.
He Once Said...
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Robert Hooke once said these exact words:
" Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly under the Water, and that either by the descending of the Waters to another part of the Earth by the alteration of the Centre of Gravity of the whole bulk, or rather by the Eruption of some kind of Subterraneous Fires or Earthquakes, great quantities of Earth have been deserted by the Water and laid bare and dry."
Mr. Hooke attended Westminster school, in Oxford.
He was nominated professor of geometry in Gresham College.
Why His Name Deserves the fame!
The Fame Continues...
Robert Hooke is famous for many interesting things that are very useful today.
Robert was the first to state clearly that motions of heavenly bodies must be regarded as a mechanical problem.
Robert Hooke stated the current theory of elasticity in Hooke's Law. This states that the amount an elastic body bends or stretches out of shape is in direct proportion to the force pushing on it.
He wrote a book called Micrographia, and it was published in 1665.
Robert Hooke developed the compound microscope and illumination system.
He built the first Gregorian telescope, and with it he discovered the 5th star Orion.
Hooke also stated the law of inverse squares which is a formula used to calculate the brightness of light.
He discovered plant cells with one of the newest microscopes in his time.
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