Scientist (18-Jul-1635 — 3-Mar-1703)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jim Bennett; Michael Cooper; Michael Hunter; Lisa Jardine. London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke. Oxford University Press. 2003. 224pp.

Ellen Tan Drake. Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thought. Oxford University Press. 1996. 386pp.

Michael Hunter; Simon Schaffer (editor). Robert Hooke: New Studies. Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press. 1989.

Stephen Inwood. The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635–1703. Macmillan. 2002. 497pp. Later issued as The Forgotten Genius.

Lisa Jardine. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London. HarperCollins. 2004. 432pp.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.730)

6. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.101)

7. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.242)

8. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.240)

9. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.149)

10. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.251)

11. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.138)

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