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Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ʊ k /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5]
Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses.
Robert Hooke published his ideas about the "System of the World" in the 1660s, when he read to the Royal Society on March 21, 1666, a paper "concerning the inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle", and he published them again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to "An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations". [6]
1662: Robert Boyle: Boyle's law of ideal gases. 1665: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: first peer reviewed scientific journal published. 1665: Robert Hooke: discovers the cell. 1668: Francesco Redi: disproved idea of spontaneous generation.
1660: Hooke's Law (equation describing elasticity) proposed by Robert Hooke (1635–1703). [17] 1666–1675: Theories on optics proposed by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726/7); Newton published Opticks in 1704. 1687: Law of universal gravitation formulated in the Principia by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726/7).
Subject: Robert Boyle: Presenter: James Dyson: An Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and pioneering chemist, who with the assistance Robert Hooke developed the air pump to discover the properties of air and its importance to life, which he demonstrated to the Royal Society. Subject: Isaac Newton: Presenter: Jim Al-Khalili
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The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, which can be found to be described in his book Micrographia. In this book, he gave 60 observations in detail of various objects under a coarse, compound microscope. One observation was from very thin slices of bottle cork. Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny pores that he named "cells".