Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...

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OF all the scientific worthies of the seventeenth century, none will be remembered longer than Robert Hooke, whose views and activities influenced the progress of scientific thought and practical ...

To investigate experimentally the extension of a spring and how it is related to the applied force, and recall that the extension of a spring is directly proportional to the force applied, provided ...