The Curious Life of Robert Hooke

Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007151756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
A biography of a largely forgotten, maverick - a major figure in the 17th century cultural and scientific revolutions. Lisa Jardine places Robert Hooke in the historical and intellectual context of his time, she examines his vast width of interests, achievements and his many influential friends.

The Forgotten Genius

Author: Stephen Inwood
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781596921153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
In Inwood's biography of this forgotten scientist, Robert Hooke and his world are vividly recreated with all their contradictions, successes, and failures. The Forgotten Genius is an absorbing and compelling study of this unduly overlooked man.

Micrographia

Author: Robert Hooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hair
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
At one time, Hooke was a research assistant to Robert Boyle. He is believed to be one of the greatest inventive geniuses of all time and constructed one of the most famous of the early compound microscopes.

Curiosity

Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022604579X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.

Out of the Shadow of a Giant

Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231547
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
The authors of Ice Age “present a well-documented argument that [Newton] owed more to the ideas of others than he admitted” (Kirkus Reviews). Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Although Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and the father of the English scientific revolution, John and Mary Gribbin uncover the fascinating story of Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose scientific achievements neatly embrace the hundred years or so during which science as we know it became established. They argue persuasively that, even without Newton, science would have made a great leap forward in the second half of the seventeenth century, headed by two extraordinary figures, Hooke and Halley. “Science readers will thank the Gribbins for restoring Hooke and Halley to the prominence that they deserve.”—Publishers Weekly “Engaging . . . They offer proof that Hooke was an important scientist in his own right, and often had physical insights that were borrowed (usually without acknowledgement) by Newton.”—Choice

The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist

Author: Tanya Byron
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250052653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"Recounts the patient stories that most influenced Professor Tanya Byron, covering years of training that forced her to confront the harsh realities of the lives of her patients and the demons of her own family's history. Among others, we meet Ray, a violent sociopath desperate to be treated with tenderness and compassion; Mollie, a talented teenager intent on starving herself; and Imogen, a twelve-year-old so haunted by a secret that she's intent on killing herself. Byron brings the reader along as she uncovers the reasons each of these individuals behave the way they do, resulting in a ... psychological mystery that sheds light on mental illness and what its treatment tells us about ourselves"--

Ingenious Pursuits

Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385720017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.

The Life of Isaac Newton

Author: Richard S. Westfall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316453952
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the movement that brought modern science into being. Richard Westfall's biography captures in engaging detail both his private life and scientific career, presenting a complex picture of Newton the man, and as scientist, philosopher, theologian, alchemist, public figure, President of the Royal Society, and Warden of the Royal Mint. An abridged version of his magisterial study Never at Rest (Cambridge, 1980), this concise biography makes Westfall's highly acclaimed portrait of Newton newly accessible to general readers.

England's Leonardo

Author: Allan Chapman
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781420034370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire. England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.

On a Grander Scale

Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007107766
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
A biography of Sir Christopher Wren from one of Britain's best writers and historians