Robert hooke autobiography
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Robert Hooke
English scientist, architect, polymath (1635–1703)
Robert HookeFRS (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703)[a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]".
Hooke was a Fellow of the Royal Societ
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Early life
Robert Hooke was born in the village of Freshwater on the western toe of the Isle of Wight, the son of Cecily Gyles and John Hooke, a curate at All Saints’ Church. Even as a child he showed great mechanical talent. He made a sundial, took apart a clock and constructed a working model in wood, and created a toy sailing boat that could fire its miniature cannons.
Hooke came to Westminster School during the first decade of Dr Richard Busby’s 57 year incumbency as Head Master. He stayed at Busby‘s house and they remained on good terms until Busby’s death. As well as learning the usual subjects such as Latin and Ancient Greek, at Westminster Hooke also learned to play the organ and ‘contrived severall ways of flying’. His mathematical talent, which would prove useful to him in the future, allowed him to master the first six books of Euclid’s Elements in a week.
Hooke acquired a place as chorister at Christ Church, Oxford, leaving Westmins