Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke ICEMANBM260 Robert Hooke was and English scientist born in 1635 and died in the year of 1703. Robert Hooke was born in the town of Freshwater, which is located in the Isle of Write. Hooke was born to a minister named John Hooke. Robert received a great deal of education that did not take place in the classroom. He studied with the portraitist Sir Peter Lely (in his youth). He was educated at the University …

…did not have the mathematics to prove it. Sir Isaac Newton completed Hooke’s work by backing it up with the needed math. Hooke also worked on topics such as the nature of combustion. He created plans of the first steam engine before they ever existed. Another invention he described was a working telegraph system as early as 1684. Hooke was like many scientists of the seventeenth century he worked on many diverse areas of science.