Robert Hooke was and English scientist born in 1635 and died in the year of 1703. Robert Hooke was born in the town of Freshwater, which is located in the Isle of Write. Hooke was born to a minister named John Hooke. Robert received a great deal of education that did not take place in the classroom. He studied with the portraitist Sir Peter Lely (in his youth). He was educated at the University of Oxford. Then after college he was an assistant of Robert Boyle. He made curator of experiments to the royal society is 1662, and secretary in 1677-88. Hooke is best known for his theory of elasticity, in Hooke’s law. In 1665 Hooke became professor of Geometry at Gresham College, which he occupied till his death. Despite being a famous scientist, there are no surviving portraits
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