1. The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke.

2. Robert Hooke also helped Boyle produce an air pump which helped to produce the vacuum.

3. The first mercury Barograph came about in the 1680's; Robert Hooke and again Negretti & Zambra

4. Newton developed the ideas of universal gravitation, Newtonian mechanics, and calculus, and Robert Hooke his eponymously named law of elasticity.

5. In 1690, Christiaan Huygens proposed a wave theory for light based on suggestions that had been made by Robert Hooke in 1664.

6. In 1676 British physicist Robert Hooke postulated Hooke's law, which states that the force a spring exerts is proportional to its extension.

7. [from 10th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII: [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every

8. * 1590 - Microscopio de Zacarias Janssen * 1665 - Microscopio de Robert Hooke * 1675 - Microscopio de Antoine von Leeuwenhoek * 1689 - Microscopio de Marcello Malpighi * siglo XVIII se inicia el debate teórico sobre la estructura de la vida, la sustancia Albuminoide de