Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy

A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientist’s expansive life and work.

Robert Hooke was England’s 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 Hooke’s scientific method as a starting point for an expedition into what Hooke himself saw as key aspects of a scientific life.

Tracing this exp...