English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

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The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

Scientists / edited, with an introduction, by H.A. Feisenberger.

Early science in Oxford ... / by R.T. Gunther.

A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke / [Sir Geoffrey Keynes].

Restless genius : Robert Hooke and his earthly thoughts / Ellen Tan Drake.

Hooke's theory of combustion / by D.J. Lysaght.

Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north. Engraving, 1775.

St. Luke's Hospital, Moorfields (top), Bethlem Hospital (middle), and St. Paul's School (bottom), London: the facade of each. Engraving by J. Peltro.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with part of London Wall in the foreground, and a muck-raker scraping at the cobblestones. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1814, after himself, June 1812.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving.

Royal College of Physicians, London. Engraving.

Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with sheep grazing and people walking in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by W. H. Prior after an earlier engraving.

Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving, 1720.

Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.

Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.

Microscopy: parts of a plant. Engraving [after R. Hooke?].

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Robert Hooke

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Works from the collections

Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.

Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.

Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke.

Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.

Microscopy: parts of a plant. Engraving [after R. Hooke?].

Robert Hooke

Images from the collections

Images by Robert Hooke

Images featuring Robert Hooke

Works from the collections

Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.

Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.

Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke.

Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.

Microscopy: parts of a plant. Engraving [after R. Hooke?].

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