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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635 - 1703 (Record no. 4596)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780230768451
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 509.2
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Inwood, Stephen
9 (RLIN) 372987
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635 - 1703
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 512 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Robert Hooke was one of the most inventive, versatile and prolific scientists of the late 17th Century, but for 300 years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. If he is remembered today, it is as the author of a law of elasticity or as amisanthrope who accused Newton of stealing his ideas on gravity. This book, the first life of Hooke for nearly fifty years, rescues its subject from centuries of obscurity and misjudgement. It shows us Hooke the prolific inventor, the mechanic, the astronomer, the anatomist, the pioneer of geology, meteorology and microscopy, the precursor of Lavoisier and Darwin. It also gives us Hooke the architect of Bedlam and the Monument, the supervisor of London's rebuilding after the Great Fire, the watchmaker, the consumer of prodigious quantities of medicines and purgatives, the candid diarist, the lover, the hoarder of money and secrets, the coffee house conversationalist. This is an absorbing study of a fascinating and unduly forgotten man.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History of science
9 (RLIN) 372988
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi History 30/06/2016 2 509.2 PKLC003554 15/03/2019 30/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 3 23/12/2018
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 06/05/2016   509.2 PKLC012634 06/05/2016 06/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17