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Robert Hooke

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

11 dated entries naming Robert Hooke, drawn from 9 separate years between 1635 CE and 1703 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 163518 July – Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)source
  • 1635July 28 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (died 1703)source
  • 1663Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of "tiny little rooms", which he first calls "Cells".source
  • 1664May 9 – Robert Hooke discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot.source
  • 1665September – Robert Hooke's Micrographia is published in London, first applying the term 'cell' to plant tissue, which he discovered first in cork, then in living organisms, using a microscope.source
  • 1667Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.source
  • 1675Bethlem Hospital, London, moves to new buildings in Moorfields, designed by Robert Hooke.source
  • 167618 February – Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".source
  • 1684Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.source
  • 1684January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.source

18th century

  • 1703March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (born 1635)source

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