- First name
- Robert
- Last name
- Hooke
- Date of Birth
- 1635.07.28
- Date of Death
- 1703.03.03
- Born in
- Freshwater
- Died in
- London
Robert Hooke was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath. Hooke was engaged (1655) by Robert Boyle as his personal assistant because of his skills in designing experiments and building equipment. He was Curator of Eperiments (1662–77), secretary (1677–82) and Original Fellow (since 1663) of the Royal Society. His reputation sprang to prominence with the publication of his Micrographia in 1665, a work on fundamental biology, which also includes a theory of light. See: Centore, 1970; DSB, vol. 6, pp. 481–8; Bennet, 2003; Gest, 2004; ODNB.