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Robert Hooke: Light
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Robert Hooke's researches over nearly 40 years covered a wide variety of Natural Philosophy. Hooke suggested a wave theory of light in his Micrographia (1665), comparing the spreading of light vibrations to that of waves in water. He suggested in 1672 that the vibrations in light might be perpendicular to the direction of propagation. He investigated the colours of membranes and of thin plates of mica, and established the variation of the light pattern with the thickness of the plates.
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One of the more-challenging problems tackled by Hooke was the measurement of the distance to a star (other than the Sun). The star chosen was Gamma Draconis and the method to be used was parallax determination. After several months of observing, in 1669, Hooke believed that the desired result had been achieved. It is now known that Hooke's equipment was far too imprecise to allow the measurement to succeed.[5] Gamma Draconis was the same star William Bradley used in 1725 in discovering the aberration of light.
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It has already been mentioned that vibration was widely used as an explanatory mechanism by Hooke. Vibration was intimately related, in Hooke's thought, with elasticity, spring, and resonance, while these in turn were seen as mechanical responses to more fundamental agencies such as 'force', light, weight, and gravity.
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