Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous areas of science, including some of the first studies of living things using microscopes. Hooke was a major player in the newly-founded Royal ...

Robert Hooke studied the uniaxial force required to extend springs and long straight wires and found it to be proportional to the extension of the device under test. He stated his observation as "Ut ...

Earlier in the year, he had entered into a lively conversation with scientist Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren, the noted architect of the new St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Halley suggested ...