Hooke

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Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.

Hooke

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Robert. 1635–1703, English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He formulated Hooke's law (1678), built the first Gregorian telescope, and invented a balance spring for watches

Hooke

English physicist, inventor, and mathematician who contributed to many aspects of science. With Robert Boyle he demonstrated that both combustion and respiration require air and that sound does not travel in a vacuum. Hooke studied plants and other objects under microscopes and was the first to use the word cell to describe the patterns he observed. He also identified fossils as a record of changes among organisms on the planet throughout history.

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Value-add and opportunistic funds — those The Times included in its analysis — “are a little more mercenary,” said Jeffrey Hooke, a senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and former private equity executive.

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Ali Hooke began posting her tinned fish date nights to the social media platform last year.

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A three-judge Federal Circuit panel voted 2-1 to invalidate American Axle's patent after finding that it covered a simple application of Hooke's law, a physics principle.

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The three people who between them established both the scientific method itself and the pre-eminence of British science at the end of the seventeenth century were Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton.

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Hooke’s imagery is misleading—and he was misled by it.

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