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Robert Hooke: Sciences
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It’s unfortunate to note that no portrait of Robert Hooke is known to exist. A possible reason for this is that he has been described as a lean, bent and ugly man and so he may not have ever been willing to sit for a painting of his portrait. Despite his possible physical shortcomings, though, he made major investigations in the realms of physical science and technology.
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Shadwell had a razor-sharp wit, but like his contemporaries, he lacked the ability to appreciate what Hooke was doing. And what Hooke was doing was advancing science on several frontiers, paleontology and biology being just two of them.
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Hooke anticipated some of the most important discoveries and inventions of his time. Among Hooke's contributions are the correct formulation of the theory of elasticity, the kinetic hypothesis of gases and the nature of combustion. He was the first to use the balance spring for the regulation of watches and devised improvements in pendulum clocks and invented a machine for cutting the teeth of watch wheels. An expert micro-scopist, his microstudies of the composition of cork led him to suggest the use of the word cell (meaning a tiny bare room, like a monk's cell), and the word survived as the name for living cells. The publication of his Micrographia in 1665, published in English, with its engraved magnifications of minute bodies, was a major milestone of English science.
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In published researches covering nearly forty years, Hooke was constantly casting around for a consistent, underlying principle that could be shown to bind the whole of nature together: a 'Grand Unified Theory', as it were. That nature did contain common lucid principles would have been taken as axiomatic by Hooke, for as the entire universe was the product of divine intelligence, it was inconceivable that God could be inconsistent in His grand design. And as human intelligence was congruent with that of God, it stood to reason that the key should be within man's reach. As Kepler had said, science was thinking God's thoughts after Him.
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