Robert Hooke was a 17th-century scientist who contributed ... In 1653, at the age of 18, Hooke began studying at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford, where he spent much of his ...

Lisa Jardine is a professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary College, University of London. Ms. Jardine talked about her book The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London ...

In the last year of his life Robert Hooke became blind and bedridden with swollen legs, suggestive of diabetes. His mind remained active. He died in his rooms at Gresham College, in Bishopsgate ...

Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) is one of the greatest ... In 1653, aged 18, he enrolled at the University of Oxford’s Christ Church College, where he studied experimental science and became a ...

While in college he changed his academic focus from ... of Baltimore; another brother Robert Hooke, of Towson; and two grandchildren. His marriage to Debra Shersinski ended in divorce.

A memorial for Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of English ... Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1665 became professor of geometry at Gresham College. A condition of this ...

In the last year of his life Robert Hooke became blind and bedridden with swollen legs, suggestive of diabetes. His mind remained active. He died in his rooms at Gresham College, in Bishopsgate ...

ROBERT HOOKE was an Oxford man, for he was a servitor at Christchurch, and an assistant to Boyle there, before he came to London to work for the newly founded Royal Society. Hence the ...