Hooke contributed greatly to the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of London.
Its members have included Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Steven Hawking.
Micrographia, written by scientist Robert Hooke in 1665, was the first major book to examine the world through the eye of a microscope.
Robert Hooke, 1635-1703 worked at the forefront of physics, astronomy, microscopy, physiology and geology and published the first fully illustrated scientific textbook, Micrographia.
Hooke did not intend his Diary to be read by anyone else, so he could be candid in his observations about himself and his contemporaries.
In the 17th century British scientist Robert Hooke took a crack at taxonomy, but his clumsy cloud names ("water'd, " "lowring, " "hairy") failed to fly.
Hooke himself was a talented illustrator, evidenced by his impressive copper-plated illustrations of a flea, which opens to four times the size of a page in Micrographia.
But he also feuded with others in the Royal Society, such as Robert Hooke, when they tried to claim joint credit for discoveries they had made with Newton.
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The Queen's House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian building in England and the park contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Christopher Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke.
Historians quibble about whether the modern level was invented by Mechisedech Thevenot , royal librarian to King Louis XIV of France, or by legendary English natural scientist Robert Hooke .
Two new entries have been added this year - the 17th Century gateway to Londesborough Estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire, designed by Robert Hooke, and the 16th Century ruins of Thorpe Salvin Old Hall, Rotherham.
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Also, over strong London coffees, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren and philosopher Robert Hooke met to discuss the movement of Earth and Dr John Wilkins mooted, for the first time ever, the idea of flying to the moon.
When Dr Hooke asked the International Standards Organisation committee that assigns country codes about establishing codes for the moon and Mars, he was told that he would need to provide a letter from the relevant sovereign representative.
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The fact that different bodies in the solar system change their relative positions as they orbit the sun will, Dr Hooke concedes, complicate routing a bit: when the earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, for example, it might be best to send e-mail via Venus.
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