John Sutton, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002424
1635–1702/3 English instrument-maker, experimentalist and natural philosopher who made key contributions in a wide range of areas including physiology, geology and mechanics.
Keywords: microscope; scientific instruments; mechanical philosophy; respiration; cell
| Further Reading | |
| book Hooke R (1665) Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. London. | |
| book Hooke R (1971) The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke [1705]. Waller R (ed.) London: Frank Cass. | |
| Bennett JA (1980) Robert Hooke as mechanic and natural philosopher. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 35: 33–48. | |
| book Espinasse M (1956) Robert Hooke. London: Heinemann. | |
| book Frank R (1980) Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. | |
| Gouk P (1980) The role of acoustics and music theory in the scientific work of Robert Hooke. Annals of Science 37: 573–605. | |
| book Hunter M and Schaffer S (eds) (1989) Robert Hooke: New Studies. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. | |
| book Kassler JC (1995) Inner Music: Hobbes, Hooke, and North on Internal Character as Musical Activity. London: Athlone Press. | |
| book McKie D (1953) "Fire and the Flamma Vitalis: Boyle, Hooke, and Mayow". In: Underwood E (ed.) Science, Medicine, and History, vol. 1, pp. 469–488. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| Mulligan L (1992) Robert Hooke's “Memoranda”: memory and natural history. Annals of Science 49: 47–61. | |
| book Vickers B (ed.) (1987) English Science: Bacon to Newton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
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