Biography robert hooke scientific contributions

Biography robert hooke scientific contributions...

Robert hooke discovery of cell

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Born

18 July
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England

Died

3 March
London, England

Summary

Robert Hooke was an English scientist who made contributions to many different fields including mathematics, optics, mechanics, architecture and astronomy.

He had a famous quarrel with Newton.

Biography

Robert Hooke's father was John Hooke who was a curate at All Saints Church in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Although formally a curate, since the minister was also Dean of Gloucester Cathedral and of Wells, John Hooke was left in charge of All Saints.

It was a well off church being in the patronage of St John's College, Cambridge. As well as his duties in the church, John Hooke also ran a small school attached to the church and acted as a private tutor.

Robert hooke microscope

Robert had a brother named John, the same name as his father, who was five years older.

Relatively few details of Robert's childhood are known. What we record here is information which he mentioned to his frie