Robert_Hooke

Robert Hooke CHRONOLOGY OF ROBERT HOOKE 1635 Born 18th July at Freshwater, Anglican Minister's son 1648 Father died. Leaves RH £100. Befriended by Richard Busby at Westminster School 1653 Enters Christ Church, Oxford. Joins circle of Boyle & Wren. Assists Willis then Boyle 1658 Constructs improved air pump for Boyle Invents watch balance spring 1661 Publishes Attempt for the explication [of capillary attraction] in London 1662 Boyle's law published - NO claim by Hooke 1662 Royal Society of London. RH Curator of Experiments. £30 salary often l ate 1663 Henry Oldenburg appointed Sec.Roy.Soc. 1664 Appointed Cutlerian lecturer. Salary of £50 pa seldom paid 1665 Appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College with rooms 1665 Publishes Micrographia. A description of the construction and use of the microscope. Not the first microscope, not the best or most systematic observations BUT one of the scientific greats 1665 Oldenburg publishes Philosophical Transactions at his own expense. 1666 The Great Fire of London. RH produced a plan for rebuilding on a rectangular grid. Appointed surveyor to represent the City in the reconstruction. Christopher Wren represented the King. Both worked closely together - now difficult to separate works. 1672 First argument with Isaac Newton about nature of light. 1674 An attempt to prove the motion of the earth - 1st Cutlerian lecture 1674 Huygens constructs hooke, hooke's, newton, london, first, church, royal, robert, over, westminster, society, one, appointed, wren, spring, law, head, experiments, boyle, 1665, very, scientific, priority, place, oxford, microscope, great, fire, design, description, cutlerian, curator, college, claims, century, being