PDF/Textbook The Posthumous Works Of Robert Hooke Md Srs Geom Prof Gresh C Containing His Cutlerian Lectures And Other Discourses Read At The Meetings Of The Illustrious Royal Society In Which I The Present Deficiency Of Natural Philosophy Is Discoursed Of With The Methods Of Rendering It More Certain And Beneficial Ii The Nature Motion And Effects Of Light Are Treated Of Particularly That Of The Sun And Comets Iii A Hypothetical Explication Of Memory How The Organs Made Use Of By The Mind In Its Operation May Be Mechanically Understood Iv An Hypothesis And Explication Of The Cause Of Gravity Or Gravitation Magnetism C V Discourses Of Earthquakes Their Causes And Effects And Histories Of Several To Which Are Annext Physical Explications Of Several Of The Fables In Ovids Metamorphoses Very Different From Other Mythologick Interpreters Vi Lectures For Improving Navigation And Astronomy With The Descriptions Of Several New And Useful Instruments And Contrivances The Whole Full Of Curious Disquisitions And Experiments Illustrated With Sculptures To These Discourses Is Prefixt The Authors Life Giving An Account Of This Studies And Employment With An Enumeration Of The Many Experiments Instruments Contrivances And Inventions By Him Made And Producd As Curator Of Experiments To The Royal Society Publishd By Richard Waller Rs Sec Full Download

Author: Michael Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495

Book Description
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was chartered in 1662 and author of the famous Micrographia (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ingenuity in designing machines and instruments, and played a crucial role as Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire. This volume represents a benchmark in the study of Hooke, bringing together a comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of his life, thought and artistry. Its sections deal with Hooke's life and reputation; his contributions to celestial mechanics and astronomy, and to speculative natural philosophy; the instruments that he designed; and his work in architecture and construction. The introduction places the studies in the context of our current understanding of Hooke and his milieu, while the book also contains a comprehensive bibliography. In all, it will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in a figure whose complexity and importance are becoming clear after centuries of neglect.