Lisa Jardine.
LISA JARDINE
THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: THE MAN WHO MEASURED LONDON (2004)
Robert Hooke was an extraordinarily versatile scientist of the 17th century. In 1661 Hooke was appointed, on Boyle’s recommendation to the post of curator, and chief experimenter, at the Royal Society.
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Lisa Jardine, who died in 2015, was Director of the Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, London University; she was also an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Jardine was born in Oxford, the daughter of the mathematician Jacob Bronowski and Rita Coblentz, a sculptor. She read mathematics and English at Newnham College, Cambridge, and an MA is the Literary Theory of Translation at the University of Essex. She was fluent in Greek, Latin, and six other languages.
