Name: Robert Hooke
DOB: 18 July 1635
DOD: 3 March 1703
From: Isle of Wight but worked in Oxford and London.
Area of work: Often viewed as a polymath Hooke worked across many fields including what would now be called chemistry and physics.
Without him… Hooke worked as a technician to Robert Boyle. More to come…
Further reading
Bennett, J. A. “Robert Hooke as Mechanic and Natural Philosopher.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 35, no. 1 (1980): 33–48.
Pumfrey, Stephen. “Ideas above His Station: A Social Study of Hooke’s Curatorship of Experiments.” History of Science 29, no. 1 (March 1991): 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327539102900101.
Shapin, Steven. “Who Was Robert Hooke?” In Robert Hooke: New Studies, edited by M Hunter and S Schaffer, 253–85. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3415435.
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