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

by Allan Chapman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750309873
• ISBN13: 9780750309875
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"