The Englishman Robert Hooke was an architect, natural philosopher and brilliant scientist, best known for his law of elasticity (Hooke’s law), his book Micrographia, published in 1665 and for first applying the word “cell” to describe the basic unit of life. It is also less well known that there is substantial evidence that Hooke developed the spring watch escapement, independently of and some fifteen years before Huygens, who is credited for this invention. Hooke also is recognised for his work on gravity, and his work as an architect and surveyor.
Hooke’s microscope
98000login-checkJuly 18th- British scientist Robert Hooke was born on this day in 1635
