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A brief biography of Robert Hooke FRS - scientist, inventor, architect - a man who, despite much ill-health, energetically pursued a huge variety of interests in science, technology and architecture, and who did so much to promote the Royal Society in its early years. |
A list of the main events and milestones in Robert Hooke's life. |
Hooke was a considerable scientist who became a considerable architect and then returned to science. Appointed a Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire, he worked indefatigably in the interests of the City. That he is much less well-known than Wren (a scientist who became and remained an architect) is due to the fact that few of his buildings have survived. The Monument is certainly his. |
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| Hooke's famous work on microscopy was published in 1665. A small selection of the articles, though not the plates, is reproduced here. | In 1745 Micrographia was becoming difficult to find, and Hooke's prose style was already out of fashion. Micrographia Restaurata (restored) was a re-issue of Hooke's original plates with an abbreviated and updated commentary. This section will eventually give all of the book as a set of images designed more for printing than for viewing on screen. | In this article Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford) presents Hooke's achievements. This lecture was given at a Friday evening Discourse at the Royal Institution and also at Westminster School. |
Some of these links are to sites not directly about Hooke, but relevant to what he did. |
Introduction | Chronology | Architecture | Micrographia | Micrographia Restaurata | England's Leonardo
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