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Robert Hooke: John Hooke
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Robert Hooke was fascinated by the sciences, particularly biology, from his early childhood. His father was John Hooke, curate of the Church of All Saints, Freshwater. Like his three other brothers (all ministers), Robert was expected to succeed in his education and join his father's church. However, Hooke continually suffered from headaches whilst studying. His parents, fearing he would not reach adulthood, decided to give up on his education and leave him to his own devices.
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John Flamsteed owed more debts to Robert Hooke than he cared to acknowledge. He made extensive use of telescope micrometers at Greenwich, while Hooke's devising of a thirty-six-foot zenith instrument in 1669, in his attempt to measure a stellar parallax, provided an interesting application of telescopic mechanics to trying to prove the Copernican theory. Hooke's endeavour to demonstrate the motion of the earth failed, but this only led Flamsteed to try for himself, and ... fail; and he further took up Hooke's suggestion that zenith star images could best be observed from the bottom of deep shafts in the ground, setting up his 'well telescope' at Greenwich. [41]
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The house seems to have been a lobby-entry house, consisting of three bays, as described in John Hooke senior's probate inventory. The photo shows evidence of a hipped roof on either end: these may be explained as small extensions to either end of the house to accommodate John Hooke's study and the kitchen at the other end. Judging from the stone in St. Agnes church, it seems that the house was constructed mainly of Upper Greensand stone. Most humbler dwellings in the Freshwater area were built using a mixture of chalk block, limestone and various types of rough sandstone - in fact, anything that came easily to hand. The fact that Hooke's house is almost entirely one type of stone suggests a slightly higher status building.
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