English physicist: 17th century

Usage examples of hooke.

Worthy using a chain saw on the uprooted tree, I decided to pay a visit to the Hookes.

As it was, the laboratory that those three lonely hereticks had set up on the Masham estate seemed a masque of what Wilkins and Hooke had done as guests of John Comstock.

Hooke considered the simplest and the most fundamental to be the geometrical concepts of point and straight line.

Royal Society commissioned Robert Hooke and Nehemiah Grew to build the very best microscopes, and brew pepper water from the finest quality of black pepper.

Wherewith the Souldan all with furie fraught,Swearing, and banning most blasphemously,Commaunded straight his armour to be brought,And mounting straight vpon a charret hye,With yron wheeles and hookes arm'd dreadfully,And drawne of cruell steedes, which he had fedWith flesh of men, whom through fell tyrannyHe slaughtred had, and ere they were halfe ded,Their bodies to his beasts for prouender did spred.

So as they gazed after her a while,Lo where a griesly Foster forth did rush,Breathing out beastly lust her to defile:His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push,Through thicke and thin, both ouer banke and bushIn hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,That from his gorie sides the bloud did gush:Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.

What pleasure can be more, he exclaims, when men are tired of planting vines and fruits and ordering gardens, orchards and building to their mind, than "to recreate themselves before their owne doore, in their owne boates upon the Sea, where man, woman and child, with a small hooke and line, by angling, may take divers sorts of excellent fish at their pleasures?

Taking up a copper spoon that Hooke had left near the scale (copper did not make sparks), he scooped up a small amount of powder from the bung-hole and began sprinkling it onto one of the scale’s frail golden pans.

In 1683, Halley, Hooke, and Wren were dining in London when the conversation turned to the motions of celestial objects.

Hooke put Daniel to work mending his Condensing Engine, which was a piston-and-cylinder arrangement for compressing or rarefying air.

It is just as obvious, however, that the very principle thus re-affirmed at the latest stage of modern physical science was already firmly established by Hooke, when he sought to prove to his contemporaries the unreality of human ideas.

Hooke had barricaded himself behind a miniature apothecary shop of bottles, purses, and flasks, and was mixing up his dinner: a compound of mercury, iron filings, flowers of sulfur, purgative waters from diverse springs, many of which were Lethal to Waterfowl.

HOOKE produced some plano-convex spherical glasses, as small as pin-heads, to serve for object-glasses in microscopes.

He handed it to Hooke, who poured it into the cylinder of the Rarefying Engine.

If Newton would only mingle with the Fellows a bit, Oldenburg seemed to believe, he would soon learn that Hooke had quite put colors out of his mind and moved on to matters such as Universal Gravitation, which of course would not interest young Mr.