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  2. Robert Hooke - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ʊ k /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5]

  3. Freshwater, Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    The renowned scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703) was born in Freshwater in 1635. His father John Hooke was the curate of All Saints Church in Freshwater. When Hooke's father died in 1648, [29] Hooke left Freshwater for London to be apprenticed to portrait painter Peter Lely. After that, he went to Westminster School and then Oxford.

  4. Royal Society - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hooke, however, disputed this, writing that: [Cassini] makes, then, Mr Oldenburg to have been the instrument, who inspired the English with a desire to imitate the French, in having Philosophical Clubs, or Meetings; and that this was the occasion of founding the Royal Society, and making the French the first.

  5. Newton-Hooke priority controversy for the inverse square law

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    Robert Hooke published his ideas about the "System of the World" in the 1660s, when he read to the Royal Society on March 21, 1666, a paper "concerning the inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle", and he published them again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to "An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations". [6]

  6. Ramsbury Manor - Wikipedia

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    Designed by Dr Robert Hooke, the house is considered one of the best examples of his work, being dignified and built to the highest standards of the time. [5] Nikolaus Pevsner wrote that the house is a "perfect example of the moderate-sized brick mansion of about 1680, a parallel to Melton Constable or Felbrigg or Denham Place". He also states ...

  7. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

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    The quote is most often attributed to Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival, Robert Hooke. Isaac Newton remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke written in 5 February 1675 and published in 1855: What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical ...

  8. Robert Pattinson Just Realized That He Based His ... - AOL

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    Robert Pattinson had a revelation during the Berlin Film Festival press conference for Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17”: He based one of his wacky accents in the movie off of Steve Buscemi’s ...

  9. Shelley Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Boyle-Hooke plaque on the outside of the Shelley Memorial in the High Street, Oxford. The Shelley Memorial is on the site where the scientists Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke performed experiments while they were in Oxford , previously Cross Hall until the early 19th century.