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

• Main Author: Purrington, Robert D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 39
• Subjects: Science > History.; Science, general.; History of Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0037-8

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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 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 Principia, 1687-1703.-Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index.