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" Robert Hooke : "
edited by Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer
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BL
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699564
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b521753
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| Title & Author
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Robert Hooke : : new studies /\ edited by Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer
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| Publication Statement
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ;Wolfeboro, N.H., USA :: Boydell Press,, 1989
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x, 310 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0851155235
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: 9780851155234
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| Notes
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"Grown out of a conference on Hooke held under the auspices of the British Society for the History of Science at the Royal Society, London, from 19 to 21 July 1988"--Page ix
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-304) and index
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| Contents
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Hooke's instruments for astronomy and navigation / J.A. Bennett -- Robert Hooke and practical optics : technical support at a scientific frontier / A.D.C. Simpson -- Robert Hooke's longitude timekeeper / Michael Wright -- Rhetoric and graphics in Micrographia / John T. Harwood -- Robert Hooke, the incongruous mechanist / John Henry -- Robert Hooke and the dynamics of motion in a curved path / Patri J. Pugliese -- Geological controversy in the seventeenth century : 'Hooke vs. Wallis' and its aftermath / David R. Oldroyd -- Experience and experiment : Robert Hooke, illness and medicine / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Who was Robert Hooke? / Steven Shapin -- Appendix. Hooke's possessions at his death : a hitherto unknown inventory
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Hooke, Robert,1635-1703
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Hooke, Robert,1635-1703
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Natural Science Disciplines-- history-- Great Britain, Biography
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Natural Science Disciplines-- Great Britain, Biography
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History, 17th Century-- Great Britain, Biography
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| Dewey Classification
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509.2
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Q143.H7H86 1989
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WZ 100H7827r 1989
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Hunter, Michael,1949-
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Schaffer, Simon,1955-
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British Society for the History of Science
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