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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Robert Hooke |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Cooper |
| ISBN: | 075465365X 9780754653653 |
| OCLC Number: | 260076147 |
| Description: | XIX, 335 S. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction; Part 1 Celestial Mechanics and Astronomy; Robert Hooke's seminal contribution to orbital dynamics, Michael Nauenberg; Hooke's programme: final thoughts, Ofer Gal; Robert Hooke as an astronomer, Hideto Nakajima; Part 2 Instruments for Natural Philosophy; Instruments and ingenuity, Jim Bennett; Hooke's design for a driven equatorial mounting, Allan Mills, John Hennessay and Stephen Watson; Assessment of the scientific value of Hooke's work, S.H. Joseph; Part 3 Speculative Philosophy; Hooke on memory and the memory of Hooke, Douwe Draaisma; Graphic technologies, Nick Wilding; Hooke's ideas of the terraqueous globe and a theory of evolution, Ellen Tan Drake; Part 4 Architecture and Construction; Hooke and Bedlam, Jacques Heyman; Robert Hooke's Montagu House, Alison Stoesser; The 'mechanick artist' in late seventeenth-century English and French architecture, Hentie Louw; Part 5 Life and Reputation; Robert Hooke: gentleman of science, Mordechai Feingold; Hooke and Westminster, Edward Smith; After the Principia, Robert D. Purrington; Robert Hooke: a reputation restored, Lisa Jardine; Bibliography; Index. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter. |
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