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This paper examines the engagement of the scholars Isaac Vossius and Robert Hooke with some sinological materials in the later seventeenth century. It argues that the disagreement between these two men on how to interpret Chinese culture may be seen as an early encounter in the Ancients v. Moderns dispute, as well as the earliest English scholarly engagement with China. Publication status: Not.
Starting with Robert Hooke in the 1600s, the microscope opened up an amazing new world — the world of life at the level of the cell. As microscopes continued to improve, more discoveries were made about the cells of living things. However, by the late 1800s, light microscopes had reached their limit. Objects much smaller than cells, including the structures inside cells, were too small to be.
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703), natural philosopher, was born on 18 July 1635 in the village of Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, the son of the Revd John Hooke (d. 1648), minister of the parish, and his wife, Cecily Gyles (d. 1665). According to some autobiographical notes reported by Richard Waller in The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke (1705), young Robert's constitution was so weak and sickly.
When Christopher Wren visited Paris in 1665-66, he famously returned with 'almost all France in paper'. His friend and colleague Robert Hooke, however, was not so lucky; his collection of architectural books and prints was acquired from London. This article outlines the contents of Hooke's architectural library and considers the general availability of architectural publications in late.
Robert Hooke was an English natural philosopher who was born in July 28, 1635, but passed on in March 3, 1703. Robert Hooke is most known for Hooke’s Law, Microscopy, and coining the word “cell”.
Ordered, That the Book written by Robert Hooke, M.A. Fellow of this Society, Entituled, Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries thereupon, Be printed by John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the said Society. Novem. 23. 1664. BROUNCKER. P.R.S.
Robert Boyle was born on 27 January 1627 in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland. He was the seventh son of the earl of Cork. He was educated at Eton and then travelled and studied in.