Book ID: CBB077538526

Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy (2020)

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Sacco, Francesco Giuseppe (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 274 pp.
Language: English

This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from optics to geology and biology, Hooke’s contributions to the Scientific Revolution proved decisive. Focusing separately on partial aspects of Hooke’s works, scholars have hitherto failed to see the unifying idea of the natural philosophy underlying them. Some of his unpublished papers have passed almost unnoticed. Hooke pursued the foundation of a real, mechanical and experimental philosophy, and this book is an attempt to reconstruct it. The book includes a selection of Hooke's unpublished papers. Readers will discover a study of the new science through the works of one of the most known protagonists. Challenging the current views on the scientific life of restoration England, this book sheds new light on the circulation of Baconian ideals and the mechanical philosophy in the early Royal Society. This book is a must-read to anybody interested in Hooke, early modern science or Restoration history.

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Authors & Contributors
Garau, Rodolfo
Eric, Cindy Hodoba
John Gribbin
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine
Yeo, Richard R.
Wragge-Morley, Alexander
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Newtonianism
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
England
Scotland
Netherlands
France
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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