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See also:HOOKE, See also:ROBERT (1635–1703) , See also:English experimental philosopher, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:July 1635 at See also:Freshwater, in the Isle of See also:Wight, where his See also:father, See also:John Hooke, was See also:minister of the See also:parish. After working for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time with See also:Sir See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Lely, he went to See also:Westminster school; and in 1653 he entered See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, as servitor. After 1655 he was employed and patronized by the Hon. Robert See also:Boyle, who turned his skill to See also:account in the construction of his See also:air-See also:pump. On the 12th of See also:November 1662 he was appointed See also:curator of experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was elected a See also:fellow in 1663, and filled the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office during the See also:remainder of his See also:life. In 1664 Sir John See also:Cutler instituted for his benefit a See also:mechanical lectureship of £5o a See also:year, and in the following year he was nominated See also:professor of See also:geometry in See also:Gresham See also:College, where he subsequently resided. After the See also:Great See also:Fire of 1666 he constructed a See also:model for the rebuilding of the See also:city, which was highly approved, although the See also:design of Sir C. See also:Wren was preferred. During the progress of the See also:works, however, he acted as surveyor, and accumulated in that lucrative employment a sum of several thousand pounds, discovered after his See also:death in an old See also:iron See also:chest, which had evidently lain unopened for above See also:thirty years. He fulfilled the duties of secretary to the Royal Society during five years after the death of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Oldenburg in 1677, See also:publishing in 1681–1682 the papers read before that See also:body under the See also:title of Philosophical Collections. A protracted controversy with Johann See also:Hevelius, in which Hooke urged the advantages of telescopic over See also:plain See also:sights, brought him little but discredit. His reasons were See also:good; but his offensive See also:style of See also:argument rendered them unpalatable and himself unpopular. Many circumstances concurred to embitter the latter years of his life. The death, in 1687, of his niece, Mrs See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
Grace Hooke, who had lived with him for many years, caused him deep affliction; a See also:law-suit with Sir John Cutler about his See also:salary (decided, however, in his favour in 1696) occasioned him prolonged anxiety; and the repeated anticipation of his discoveries inspired him with a morbid See also:jealousy. Marks of public respect were not indeed wanting to him. A degree of M.D. was conferred on him at Doctors' See also:Commons in 1691, and the Royal Society made him, in 1696, a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to enable him to See also:complete his philosophical inventions. While engaged on this task he died, worn out with disease, on the 3rd of See also:March 1703 in See also:London, and was buried in St See also:Helen's Church, Bislropsgate See also:Street.
In See also:personal See also:appearance Hooke made but a sorry show. His
figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his See also:hair hung in dishevelled locks over his See also:haggard countenance. His See also:temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary. He was, however, 'blameless in morals and reverent in See also:religion. His scientific achievements would probably have been more striking if they had been less varied. He originated much, but perfected little. His See also:optical investigations led him to adopt in an imperfect See also:form the undulatory theory of See also:light, to anticipate the See also:doctrine of interference, and to observe, independently of though subsequently to F. M. See also:Grimaldi (1618–1663), the phenomenon of diffraction. He was the first to See also:state clearly that the motions of the heavenly bodies must be regarded See also:asa mechanical problem, and he approached in a remarkable manner the See also:discovery of universal See also:gravitation. He invented the See also:wheel See also:barometer, discussed the application of barometrical indications to meteorological forecasting, suggested a See also:system of optical telegraphy, anticipated E.F.F. Chladni's experiment of strewing a vibrating See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell with See also:flour, investigated the nature of See also:sound and the See also:function of the air in respiration and See also:combustion, and originated the See also:idea of using the pendulum as a measure of gravity. He is credited with the invention of the See also:anchor escapement for clocks, and also with the application of See also:spiral springs to the balances of watches, together with the explanation of their See also:action by the principle Ut lensio sic vis (1676).
His See also:principal writings are Micrographia (1664); Lectiones Cutlerianae (16i4–16i9); and See also:Posthumous Works, containing a See also:sketch of his Philosophical See also:Algebra," published by R. See also:Waller in 1705.
End of Article: HOOKE, ROBERT (1635–1703)
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