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The curious life of Robert Hooke : the man who measured London / Lisa Jardine.

By: New York : HarperCollins. c2004Description: ix, 422 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 006053897X (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 509.2 B 22
LOC classification:
  • Q143.H7 J37 2004
Summary: Illuminating London's critical role in the emergence of modern science, Lisa Jardine rediscovers and decodes Robert Hooke as a great original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination, a major figure in the seventeenth-century intellectual and scientific revolution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illuminating London's critical role in the emergence of modern science, Lisa Jardine rediscovers and decodes Robert Hooke as a great original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination, a major figure in the seventeenth-century intellectual and scientific revolution.

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