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All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of

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Author

Chapman, Allan

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781420034370

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-25