Robert hooke biography resumo novelas

The two main characters of my novel The Bloodless Boy were real people. Both employed by the Royal Society of London, Robert Hooke was its Curator of Experiments, and Harry Hunt, who had been Hooke’s apprentice, was an ‘observator’.

My story has them investigate the death of a blood-drained boy, using their knowledge of the ‘new philosophy’—as science was then usually known.

Here, I concentrate on Robert Hooke (1635–1703).

Robert hooke biography resumo novelas

Richard Waller, his contemporary, tells us his inventions numbered ‘some hundreds’. Hooke himself said they were ‘not fewer than a thousand.’ An Original Fellow of the Royal Society, when appointed its Curator in 1663 he became responsible for providing ‘considerable experiments’—three or four every week.

Later, he became its Secretary, continuing in both roles. Although the overwork caused him great stress—his diary shows he often resolved to leave—he remained, living in lodgings at the Society’s meeting place