Robert+Hooke

//**“The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.” R.H.**//  //  __ Robert Hooke __//

// Robert Hooke is one of the more neglected philosophers of all time. He invented the iris diaphragm in cameras and in microscopes, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch, and he was the originator of the word 'cell' in biology. He was surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666. He also was an architect, //// experimenter, worked in astronomy, but is mostly known for Hooke's Law. // // He was born on ////18 July 1635 in England. In 1648 he moved to London and improved his artistic skills, by the help of Sir Peter Lely. He then was accepted into the school called Westminster. In 1657 he devolved springs and spiral springs instead of pendulums in his development of the pocket watch. In 1658 he became a paid assistant to Robert Boyle. With the help of Boyle he got a job as the Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society. His task was that he had to have three to four major experiments each week to be reported on or demonstrated to the Royal society. In 1664 he developed the // spring-balance clock. In 1665 he was appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. He also published his “Micrographia”. It was a book with drawings of various objects under a microscope. It was the basis for the early advances in biology and first contained the word “cell”. He said cells reminded him of monk’s cells. The book also includes a section on the building of microscopes one person even said that it was “The most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.” (Pepys). === // Some of things that he did was he worked on clocks, springs, gases, and he had ideas on fossils, weather, gravity and light. Also he was the person who actually created the air pump which Robert Boyle could conduct his experiments with. Also a lot of Boyle’s work on gasses my have been inspired by Hooke, but the most famous thing Hooke ever came up with was the Hooke’s Law. The Hooke’s law was announced in 1676. The law said //that the amount of force with which they push back increases in proportion to the extent to which they are compressed-for every centimeter of compression the force increases by the same amount. ===

__ Robert Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton   __
=== Robert Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton didn’t like each other at all. It all started when Robert Hooke criticized Newton on his belief that prism split white light. They started to dislike each other even more when Newton didn’t say that Robert Hooke had begun the study of inverse law of the study of gravitation. ===

__ Inventions and Achievements   __
<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  A study of fossil and suggesting they were extinct species  Investigations of combustion came close to discovering oxygen  A thermometer  An air pump  Iris diaphragm used in cameras today  The sash window  First anemometer || <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f79d02; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msoansilanguage: EN;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">//This is the book "Micrographia", which had all of the notes and discoverys of Robert Hooke's experiments with the microscope. With these experiments he was able to discover the cell and more about it.// <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“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.” <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Robert Hooke
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** Replica of a Hooke Microscope on show at the Science Museum - London. **

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