Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist...

of the spring. The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676 as a Latin anagram. He published the...

west of Hooke Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher who discovered Hooke's law Hooke (surname), a surname Hooke (lunar crater) Hooke (Martian...

first book of Newton's Principia was presented to the Royal Society, Robert Hooke accused Newton of plagiarism by claiming that he had taken from him the...

knowledge of various clever mechanisms, including gimbals Hooke joint or Hooke's joint, after Robert Hooke, a polymath of the 17th century who contributed to...

Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses. It was one of the first...

advanced enough to discover cells. This discovery is largely attributed to Robert Hooke, and began the scientific study of cells, known as cell biology. When...

close friend and collaborator of Robert Hooke, for whom he frequently brought back gifts from his travels. In return, Hooke took Knox to the local coffeehouses...

repulsive at perihelion. Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expounded gravitation in 1666 as an attractive force. Hooke's lecture "On gravity"...

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey as the voice of scientists Edmond Halley and Robert Hooke. In 2010, he returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D (2010), the seventh...