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The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke by Robert Hooke
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.88Published in 1971: This book represents the Posthumous works of the author, as well as lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Science.About the AuthorRobert HookeBook InformationISBN... -
Micrographia by Robert Hooke 9781839193620
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839193620Author Robert HookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Ockham PublishingPublisher... -
Philosophical Experiments and Observations by Robert Hooke
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Shortly after Hooke died in 1703, his miscellaneous papers and unpublished manuscripts were entrusted to Richard Waller, who edited and published some of them in a volume titled The Posthumous Works... -
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society Meghan Doherty 9781041178781
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and... -
Micrographia: Tabled & Illustrated by Robert Hook 9786257959483
Booksplease Price: £42.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786257959483Author Robert HookFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest... -
Robert Hooke - New Studies by Michael Hunter
Booksplease Price: £91.38`Individually excellent and scholarly essays... most illuminating and thought-provoking. A conspicuous feature of the collection is the heterogeneity of the scientific topics discussed.' ENGLISH... -
Introduction to Scientific Inference by Robert Hooke 9780837184708
Booksplease Price: £61.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837184708Author Robert HookeFormat HardbackPage Count 101Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher... -
Philosophical Experiments and Observations of ... Robert Hooke ... and Other Eminent Virtuoso's in His Time, Publ. by W. Derham by Robert Hooke 9780371202357
Booksplease Price: £18.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371202357Author Robert HookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress... -
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society by DR. (ENG) Meghan Doherty
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and... -
Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy Felicity Henderson 9781789149548
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.82Robert Hooke was England's first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scientists to leave a detailed manual describing how... -
How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians Robert Hooke 9780824718176
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research,... -
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.31The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader... -
Wing by Matthew Francis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies,... -
Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts by Ofer Gal 9781402007323
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential breakthroughs in the history of celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's (1635-1703) proposal to "compoun[d] the celestial... -
Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies by Robert Hooke 9781602066632
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602066632Author Robert HookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo... -
Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies by Robert Hooke 9781602069633
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602069633Author Robert HookeFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo... -
The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy by Peter R. Anstey 9789048169092
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £92.61One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our... -
Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science King-thom Chung (The Univ Of Memphis, Usa) 9789813200364
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and... -
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London by Lisa Jardine 9780060538989
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060538989Author Lisa JardineFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy by Francesco G. Sacco 9783030444532
Booksplease Price: £81.46This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from... -
Real, Mechanical, Experimental: Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy by Francesco G. Sacco 9783030444501
Booksplease Price: £81.46This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from... -
England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution by Allan Chapman 9780367393557
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.65All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were... -
The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy by Peter R. Anstey 9781402036033
Booksplease Price: £90.56One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our... -
The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London by Robert D. Purrington 9783034600361
Booksplease Price: £46.58A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific revolution, faded into... -
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.261666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with... -
Robert Hooke's Contributions to Mechanics: A Study in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy by F. F. Centore 9789401186339
Booksplease Price: £46.28In the history of science and philosophy and the philosophy of nature the name Robert Hooke has been largely ignored. If he is occasionally men tioned, it is usually in one of two ways: either he is... -
Robert Hooke's Contributions to Mechanics: A Study in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy by F. F. Centore 9789401750769
Booksplease Price: £46.28In the history of science and philosophy and the philosophy of nature the name Robert Hooke has been largely ignored. H he is occasionally men tioned. it is usually in one of two ways: either he is... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635 - 1703 by Stephen Inwood 9780230768451
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Robert Hooke was one of the most inventive, versatile and prolific scientists of the late 17th Century, but for 300 years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great... -
Remarkable Renaissance Books John Boardley 9781851245482
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.35Remarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very first titles printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the... -
The Mind Is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Sean Silver
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books,... -
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation by Melvyn Bragg 9781471174483
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat... -
Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke 9780371185292
Booksplease Price: £17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371185292Author Robert HookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress... -
Christopher Wren: In Search of Eastern Antiquity Vaughan Hart 9781913107079
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67A fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren's architecture In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren's... -
Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London by Matthew C. Hunter 9780226017297
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.42In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory... -
A Short, Illustrated History of... Scientific Discoveries by Clive Gifford
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18If your kids are fed up with learning the names of kings and queens or dates of battles, then this is the history book for them. This book only contains some of the most brilliant discoveries in... -
Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life by Christian Sardet 9798893030839
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.46In the fifteenth century, as astronomers charted the skies and explorers mapped the globe, the nature of life itself remained a mystery. It wasn't until the seventeenth century that Robert Hooke,... -
The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope by Catherine Wilson
Booksplease Price: £32.82In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior... -
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.24The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £16.30Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that... -
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb 9780691147826
Booksplease Price: £29.32Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered...