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Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke : Cometa
"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomical practice rested on false [ie supposedly philosophical] grounds."
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Flamsteed Print: Book
Robert Hooke : Micrographia [?]
'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'
