Hooke

[ hook ]

noun

1. Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.

Hooke

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noun

1. HookeRobert16351703MEnglishSCIENCE: physicistSCIENCE: chemistTECHNOLOGY: inventor Robert. 1635–1703, English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He formulated Hooke's law (1678), built the first Gregorian telescope, and invented a balance spring for watches

Hooke

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1. English physicist, inventor, and mathematician who contributed to many aspects of science. With Robert Boyle he demonstrated that both combustion and respiration require air and that sound does not travel in a vacuum. Hooke studied plants and other objects under microscopes and was the first to use the word cell to describe the patterns he observed. He also identified fossils as a record of changes among organisms on the planet throughout history.

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The term "cell" had been introduced by Hooke in 1667, and Malpighi and Grew were the founders of the cell-doctrine.

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These watches all had two balances and balance springs fashioned after the scheme Hooke had worked out.

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It proves that he knew, as Boyle, Hooke and Mayow did before him, that a body gains weight in oxidation.

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Dr. Hooke, 1684, remarked that steel or iron was magnetized when heated to redness and placed in the magnetic meridian.

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Incidentally, Hooke claimed to be the inventor of the first air-pump himself, although this claim is now entirely discredited.

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