Felicity Henderson.

FELICITY HENDERSON: ROBERT HOOKE BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT HOOKE’S EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY (2024)

Robert Hooke (born 1635) was a prominent 17th century scientist. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and was its first Curator of Experiments. He was one of the first to study living things at microscopic scale, and coined the term cell.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Felicity Henderson is Senior Lecturer in Archives and Material Culture at the University of Exeter. She has written on the early years of the Royal Society, and is working on a new edition of Hooke’s diaries for Oxford University Press.

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