biography
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| lived:
| (1635–1703)
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| biography:
| Chemist and physicist, born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became curator of experiments to the Royal Society (1662), and in 1677 was appointed its secretary. He formulated the law governing elasticity (Hooke's law), and invented the balance spring for watches. The Gregorian telescope and microscope are materially his inventions, with which he made important observations, many of which were published in his Micrographia (1665). |
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