The first professional scientist Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London
A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific revolution, faded into almost complete obscurity after his death and remained there for nearly three centuries. The result has...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel ; Boston :
Birkhaeuser Verlag
c2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Science networks historical studies ;
v. 39. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009787740006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Restoring Robert Hooke
- Robert Hooke, Indefaticable Genius: Hooke and London
- Promoting Physico-Mathematical-Experimental Learning: Founding the Royal Society of London
- Society of the Muses: The First Decade
- Crisis and Consolidation: 1672–1687
- The Society After the Principia: 1688–1703
- Scientific Virtuoso: Hooke 1655–1687
- And all was Light: Hooke and Newton on Light and Color
- The Nature of Things Themselves: Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher
- The System of the World: Hooke and Universal Gravitation, the Inverse-square Law, and Planetary Orbits
- The Omnipotence of the Creator: Robert Hooke, Astronomer
- The Last Remain: Hooke After the Principa, 1687–1703
- Epilogue
- Erratum.
