England's Leonardo : Robert Hooke and the seventeenth-century scientific revolution / Allan Chapman.
Pubblicazione:
Boca Raton : CRC press, c2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 330 p., [30] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Early life: the prodigy from the Isle of Wight 2. Breathing, burning, and flying: Hooke's scientific apprenticeship 3. The curator of experiments 4. Microscopes and meteorology 5. Hooke and the astronomers 6. Medicine and physiology 7. Surveyor to the City of London 8. A world turned upside down: Hooke's geological ideas 9. A world of mechanism 10. A realm of vibration: of flight, spring, watches and music 11. A large window ... into the shop of nature: Hooke and light 12. From pendulums to planets: experiments and the understanding of gravity 13. Friends, mistresses, religion and politics: Hooke's inner world 14. Death and historical legacy. Appendix: Portraits of Robert Hooke. Endnotes. List of works abbreviated in the notes. Index
