Robert Hookes Experimental Philosophy
Robert Hookes Experimental Philosophy
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A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientists expansive life and work.
Robert Hooke was Englands first professional scientist and a pioneer of science communication. He was also one of the earliest to write a guide for how others might become experimental philosophers like himself. In this new biography, Felicity Henderson takes Hookes scientific method as a starting point for an expedition into what Hooke himself saw as key aspects of a scientific life.
Tracing this expansive life, the story draws readers through marketplaces, bookshops, construction sites, and coffee houseseven into the Kings royal presence at Whitehall Palace. Henderson explains how Hookes observations and conversations with the workmen, colleagues, craftsmen, and patrons he met through his work underpinned Hookes research in significant ways. The result is a fresh portrait of the scientist as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to help the world see even the smallest parts of everyday life with new eyes.
Robert Hooke was Englands first professional scientist and a pioneer of science communication. He was also one of the earliest to write a guide for how others might become experimental philosophers like himself. In this new biography, Felicity Henderson takes Hookes scientific method as a starting point for an expedition into what Hooke himself saw as key aspects of a scientific life.
Tracing this expansive life, the story draws readers through marketplaces, bookshops, construction sites, and coffee houseseven into the Kings royal presence at Whitehall Palace. Henderson explains how Hookes observations and conversations with the workmen, colleagues, craftsmen, and patrons he met through his work underpinned Hookes research in significant ways. The result is a fresh portrait of the scientist as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to help the world see even the smallest parts of everyday life with new eyes.
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A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientists expansive life and work.
Robert Hooke was Englands first professional scientist and a pioneer of science communication. He was also one of the earliest to write a guide for how others might become experimental philosophers like himself. In this new biography, Felicity Henderson takes Hookes scientific method as a starting point for an expedition into what Hooke himself saw as key aspects of a scientific life.
Tracing this expansive life, the story draws readers through marketplaces, bookshops, construction sites, and coffee houseseven into the Kings royal presence at Whitehall Palace. Henderson explains how Hookes observations and conversations with the workmen, colleagues, craftsmen, and patrons he met through his work underpinned Hookes research in significant ways. The result is a fresh portrait of the scientist as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to help the world see even the smallest parts of everyday life with new eyes.
Robert Hooke was Englands first professional scientist and a pioneer of science communication. He was also one of the earliest to write a guide for how others might become experimental philosophers like himself. In this new biography, Felicity Henderson takes Hookes scientific method as a starting point for an expedition into what Hooke himself saw as key aspects of a scientific life.
Tracing this expansive life, the story draws readers through marketplaces, bookshops, construction sites, and coffee houseseven into the Kings royal presence at Whitehall Palace. Henderson explains how Hookes observations and conversations with the workmen, colleagues, craftsmen, and patrons he met through his work underpinned Hookes research in significant ways. The result is a fresh portrait of the scientist as a champion of the mundane, whose greatest gift was to help the world see even the smallest parts of everyday life with new eyes.
