Robert Hooke 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. Allan Chapman. England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution. Institute of Physics Publishing. 2004. 330pp. Michael Cooper. A More Beautiful City: Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire. Sutton. 2003. 271pp. Michael Cooper; Michael Hunter (editors). Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies. Ashgate Publishing. 2006. 335pp. Ellen Tan Drake. Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thought. Oxford University Press. 1996. 386pp. Michael Hunter; Simon Schaffer (editors). 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. Harper Collins. 2004. 432pp. Leona Rostenberg. Library of Robert Hooke: The Scientific Book Trade of Restoration England. Modoc Press. 1989. 257pp.
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- Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.242)
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- Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.149)
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