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| List of Illustrations | xv | |
| A Chronology of the Life of Robert Hooke | xvii | |
| 1. | 'The History of My Own Life' (1635-1653) | 3 |
| 2. | The Revolution in Science | 11 |
| 3. | Hooke at Oxford (1653-1662) | 17 |
| 4. | The Royal Society (1660-1664) | 23 |
| 5. | 'Full of Employment' (1662-1664) | 35 |
| 6. | A Secret World Discovered (1665) | 57 |
| 7. | Falling Bodies (1665-1666) | 72 |
| 8. | 'London Was, But It Is No More' (1666-1667) | 85 |
| 9. | 'Noble Experiments' (1666-1670) | 96 |
| 10. | A New Career (1668-1675) | 121 |
| 11. | Physicians, Lovers and Friends | 133 |
| 12. | Heat and Light (1671-1673) | 150 |
| 13. | Measuring the Heavens (1673-1676) | 166 |
| 14. | The Coiled Spring (1674-1675) | 179 |
| 15. | 'Oldenburg Kindle Cole' (1675-1676) | 208 |
| 16. | In Two Worlds (1677) | 229 |
| 17. | Tiny Creatures and Springy Bodies (1677-1678) | 241 |
| 18. | 'A Man of a Strange Unsociable Temper' (1678-1680) | 260 |
| 19. | All Trades (1680) | 282 |
| 20. | The Empire of the Senses (1681-1682) | 293 |
| 21. | A Curator Again (1682-1684) | 312 |
| 22. | Newton's Triumph (1684-1686) | 329 |
| 23. | The World Turned Upside Down (1687-1688) | 344 |
| 24. | A Revolution and Old Battles (1688-1690) | 357 |
| 25. | The Fear of Being Forgotten (1690-1693) | 378 |
| 26. | Hooke's Last Years (1693-1703) | 395 |
| Notes | 416 | |
| Bibliography | 444 | |
| Index | 456 |
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Joseph Anthony
reviewed Forgotten Genius: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 on November 30, 2008 Forgotten Genius: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635-1703
Excellent book: very good written and about a very interesting time. It's fascinating to learn how the modern scientific thought was formed, and how Robert Hooke contributed to it. I think that the book is about the fragility of ideas, inventions and other "things" from the human culture that can be lost so easily. Robert Hooke and many of his peers were advanced to their times, and many ideas and inventions were lost, to be rediscovered perhaps 100 to 200 years later. But the foundations of modern scientific thinking were laid during this time: peer review, open communication, measurement, review theories against facts and predictions, and the value of intellectual recognition.
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