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Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 July 1635, 28 July 1635, 1635
- Died
- 3 March 1703, 14 March 1703
- Place of birth
- Freshwater
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- Hooke
- Father
- John Hooke
- Mother
- Cecily Gyles
- Field of work
- mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology, architecture, astronomy, surveying, mathematics, materials science
- Occupation
- architect, astronomer, physicist, diarist, university teacher, philosopher, inventor, biologist, naturalist
- Position held
- secretary of the Royal Society
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Thomas Willis, Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren
- educated at
- Christ Church, Westminster School, University of Oxford
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, Latin, Ancient Greek
- member of
- Royal Society
- name in native language
- Robert Hooke
- notable work
- Micrographia, Hooke's law, Church of St Mary Magdalene, Montagu House, Bethlem Royal Hospital at Moorfields
- place of burial
- St Helen's Bishopsgate
- student
- Edmond Halley
- student of
- Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Richard Busby
- topic's main category
- Category:Robert Hooke
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Micrographia
- Of a Flea
- Of a blue Fly
- The great Belly'ed Gnat or female Gnat
- Of a Louse
- Micrographia title page
- Of the Point of a sharp small Needle & Of the Edge of a Razor
- Of Small Glass Canes & Of some Phænomena of Glass drops
- Of fine waled Silk, or Taffety & Of watered Silks, or Stuffs
- Of the fiery Sparks struck from a Flint or Steel
- Robert Hooke's scientific instruments
- Of the Colours observable in Muscovy Glass, and other thin Bodies & Of Metalline, and other real Colours
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