The First Professional Scientist Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Purrington, Robert D. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Σειρά: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 39
• Θέματα: History.; History of Science.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.