Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy
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2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-954-8 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-954-8 (ISBN)
A new biography of pioneering scientist Robert Hooke, from method to influence.
Robert Hooke was England’s first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scientists to leave a detailed manual describing how others could follow his lead and become ‘experimental philosophers’ themselves. This new biography takes Hooke’s scientific method as its starting point, exploring what Hooke himself saw as the key aspects of a scientific life. It follows Hooke through the shops of instrument makers and craftsmen, into coffee-houses and bookshops, onto building sites and into the king’s audience chamber at Whitehall Palace. It uses new evidence to explain how Hooke’s observations and conversations with workmen, philosophical colleagues, craftsmen and London’s wealthy elite underpinned his scientific research in unexpected but significant ways. Hooke emerges as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to see the potential for new knowledge in the least promising aspects of everyday life.
Robert Hooke was England’s first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scientists to leave a detailed manual describing how others could follow his lead and become ‘experimental philosophers’ themselves. This new biography takes Hooke’s scientific method as its starting point, exploring what Hooke himself saw as the key aspects of a scientific life. It follows Hooke through the shops of instrument makers and craftsmen, into coffee-houses and bookshops, onto building sites and into the king’s audience chamber at Whitehall Palace. It uses new evidence to explain how Hooke’s observations and conversations with workmen, philosophical colleagues, craftsmen and London’s wealthy elite underpinned his scientific research in unexpected but significant ways. Hooke emerges as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to see the potential for new knowledge in the least promising aspects of everyday life.
Felicity Henderson is Senior Lecturer in Archives and Material Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Robert Hooke and the early Royal Society, and she is currently preparing a new edition of Hooke’s diaries for Oxford University Press.
Introduction: Mad, Foolish and Phantastick
1 The Present Deficiency of Natural Philosophy
2 A city, where all the noises and business in the world do meet
3 Much Love and Service to all My Friends
4 These My Poor Labours
5 A Man Who Is Mechanically Minded
6 Curiosity and Beauty
7 An Excellent System of Nature
8 A Discourse of Earthquakes
Epilogue: The Teeth of Time
Chronology
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Renaissance Lives |
| Zusatzinfo | 28 illustrations, 20 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-954-1 / 1789149541 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-954-8 / 9781789149548 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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