The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London by Lisa Jardine
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London

Lisa Jardine

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London

Lisa Jardine

448 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography science adventurous informative slow-paced
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The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Throughout the 1670s he worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Ch...

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