The Curious Life of Robert Hooke PDF

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) war eine britische Historikerin der frühen Neuzeit. Von 1990 bis 2011 war sie Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies und Direktorin des Centre for Editing Lives and Letters an der Queen Mary, University of London. Seit 2008 war sie Vorsitzende der Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Sie war Mitglied des Rates der Royal Institution, trat jedoch im September 2009 von diesem Posten zurück. Am 1. September 2012 zog sie mit ihrem Forschungszentrum und seinen Mitarbeitern um an das University College London (UCL) als erster Direktor seines Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung in den Geisteswissenschaften.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke pdf von Lisa Jardine

"Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this compelling and empathetic portrait, she succeeds in making a convincing case for his place in history. . . [as] a founding father in Europe's scientific revolution." -- Los Angeles Times The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and inventor who worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666. He was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, and his engravings of natural phenomena seen under the new microscope appeared in his masterpiece, the acclaimed Micrographia, one of the most influential volumes of the day. But Hooke's irascible temper and his passionate idealism proved fatal for his relationships with important political figures, most notably Sir Isaac Newton: their quarrel is legendary. As a result, historical greatness eluded Robert Hooke. Eminent historian Lisa Jardine does this original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination justice and allows him to take his place as a major figure in the seventeenth century intellectual and scientific revolution.