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    Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Universal joint (redirect from Hooke joint)
    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...
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  • west of Hooke Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher who discovered Hooke's law Hooke (surname), a surname Hooke (lunar crater) Hooke (Martian...
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    Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses. It was the first book...
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    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...
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    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...
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    repulsive at perihelion. Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expounded gravitation in 1666 as an attractive force. Hooke's lecture "On gravity"...
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    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...
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