The Curious Life of Robert Hooke pdf

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) è stata una storica britannica della prima età moderna. Dal 1990 al 2011 è stata Professoressa del Centenario di Studi sul Rinascimento e Direttore del Center for Editing Lives and Letters presso la Queen Mary, University of London. Dal 2008 è stata presidente della Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] È stata membro del Consiglio della Royal Institution, ma si è dimessa da tale incarico nel settembre 2009. Il 1 settembre 2012 si è trasferita con il suo centro di ricerca e il suo personale all'University College London (UCL) per diventare il primo direttore del suo Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke pdf da 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.