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- catalog abstract ""Interest in Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is growing and his reputation is rising. A widespread sympathy for a neglected figure of seventeenth-century science is being displaced by something more positive - a mixture of astonishment at the extraordinary range and diversity of his talents, esteem for the originality and acumen of his science, admiration for his administrative capability and civic integrity, and fascination at the energy, emotion, and frailty evident in a life fully engaged with the world of Restoration London. Comparisons with his enemy Newton are giving way to an appreciation of Hooke on his own terms, passionately occupied with experiment, invention, argument, writing, teaching, and earning a living as a scientist in a competitive world." "Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter, and Lisa Jardine each have a record of specialist research on aspects of Hooke, and they have come together, in the year of the tercentenary of his death in 1703, to provide a significant re-evaluation of the most important facets of his life and work: his career as a public man, his instrument designing and making, his scientific thought, and the private world of his personal life, his illnesses and his medications."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12811200.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Interest in Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is growing and his reputation is rising. A widespread sympathy for a neglected figure of seventeenth-century science is being displaced by something more positive - a mixture of astonishment at the extraordinary range and diversity of his talents, esteem for the originality and acumen of his science, admiration for his administrative capability and civic integrity, and fascination at the energy, emotion, and frailty evident in a life fully engaged with the world of Restoration London. Comparisons with his enemy Newton are giving way to an appreciation of Hooke on his own terms, passionately occupied with experiment, invention, argument, writing, teaching, and earning a living as a scientist in a competitive world." "Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter, and Lisa Jardine each have a record of specialist research on aspects of Hooke, and they have come together, in the year of the tercentenary of his death in 1703, to provide a significant re-evaluation of the most important facets of his life and work: his career as a public man, his instrument designing and making, his scientific thought, and the private world of his personal life, his illnesses and his medications."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Hooke's career / Michael Cooper -- Hooke's instruments / Jim Bennett -- Hooke the natural philosopher / Michael Hunter -- Hooke the man : his diary and his health / Lisa Jardine.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 224 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198525796".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "509.2 B 22".
- catalog subject "Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.".
- catalog subject "Q143.H7 L66 2003".
- catalog subject "Scholars Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Science Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Scientists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Hooke's career / Michael Cooper -- Hooke's instruments / Jim Bennett -- Hooke the natural philosopher / Michael Hunter -- Hooke the man : his diary and his health / Lisa Jardine.".
- catalog title "London's Leonardo : the life and work of Robert Hooke / Jim Bennett ... [et al.]".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".