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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke,

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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, - Inwood, Stephen
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The strange and eventful story of one of the great unsung heroes of modern science.Robert Hooke was one of the most inventive, versatile and prolific scientists of the late 17th Century, but for 300 years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. If he isremembered today, it is as the author of a law of elasticity or as amisanthrope who accused Newton of stealing his ideas on gravity. Thisbook, the first life of Hooke for ...

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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 2002, Macmillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780333782866

Hardcover