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Paperback England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution Book

ISBN: 0367393557

ISBN13: 9780367393557

England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution

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All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect...

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