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The First Professional Scientist Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London /

A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific revolution, faded into almost complete obscurity after his death and remained there for nearly three centuries. The result has...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purrington, Robert D. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Science Networks. Historical Studies, 39
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Restoring Robert Hooke -- Robert Hooke, Indefaticable Genius: Hooke and London -- Promoting Physico-Mathematical-Experimental Learning: Founding the Royal Society of London -- Society of the Muses: The First Decade -- Crisis and Consolidation: 1672-1687 -- The Society After the Principia: 1688-1703 -- Scientific Virtuoso: Hooke 1655-1687 -- And all was Light: Hooke and Newton on Light and Color -- The Nature of Things Themselves: Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher -- The System of the World: Hooke and Universal Gravitation, the Inverse-square Law, and Planetary Orbits -- The Omnipotence of the Creator: Robert Hooke, Astronomer -- The Last Remain: Hooke After the Principa, 1687-1703 -- Epilogue -- Erratum. 
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