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Great Lives: Robert Hooke

23-Aug-2008, 00:00

The guest this week on BBC Radio 4′s Great Lives programme was Sir David Attenborough. Sir David nominated Robert Hooke. Great choice! Hooke’s biographer, Lisa Jardine, also contributed. I’m downloading the podcast as I type.

For one week only, you can listen again to the program, or download the mp3 file.

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Robert Hooke folio goes online

19-Oct-2007, 00:00

Royal Society, ‘Exploring our archives’: Life after Hooke

The Hooke folio is now online and searchable at http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/cell/Hooke/Hooke.html while the visually stunning ‘turning the pages’ can be found at http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/HookeTTP/hooke_broadband.htm.

Utterly awesome. Think Indiana Jones’s dad’s notebook, but with actual science. I’m so glad we managed to keep this folio in the UK.

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