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806 pp., incl. index ... Read more

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BRAND NEW leather bound book accented with gilt! ! Magnificent facsimile of Hooke's groundbreaking work introducing the microscope to the scientific community of 17th century. Complete with plates and illustrations of early observations. BOUND IN GENUINE LEATHER NOTE: The Classics of Medicine Library edition is out of stock. If you order this title we will send you the Classics of Science edition ... Read more

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This is a biography of the versatile English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703). It explores attributes which led to his success including an inquiring mind, an eye for detail and mechanical skill. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The idea of timestamping information is actually centuries old. For example, when Robert Hooke discovered Hooke's law in 1660, he did not want to publish it yet, but wanted to be able to claim priority. So he published the anagram ceiiinosssttuv and later published the translation ut tensio sic vis (Latin for "as is the extension, so is the force"). Similarly, Galileo first published his discovery of the phases of Venus in the anagram form. A modern example is the case of an industrial research organization that may later need to prove, for patent purposes, that they made a particular discovery on a particular date; since magnetic media can be altered easily, this may be a nontrivial issue. One possible solution is for a researcher to compute and record in a hardcopy laboratory notebook a cryptographic hash of the relevant data file. In the future, should there be a need to prove the version of this file retrieved from a backup tape has not been altered, the hash function could be recomputed and compared with the hash value recorded in that paper notebook. ... Read more