Much of what is known of Hooke's early life comes from an autobiography he commenced in 1696 but never completed;
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Hooke's role at the Royal Society was to demonstrate experiments from his own methods or at the suggestion of members. Among his earliest demonstrations were discussions of the nature of air and the implosion o… See more

Robert Hooke was Surveyor to the City of London and chief assistant to Christopher Wren, in which capacities he helped Wren rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666. Hooke designed the Monument to the Great Fire of Lon… See more

No authenticated portrait of Robert Hooke exists, a situation that has sometimes been attributed to the heated conflicts between Hooke and Isaac Newton, although Hooke's biographer Allan Chapman rejects as a myth c… See more

• 3514 Hooke, an asteroid (1971 UJ)
• A crater on the Moon and another on Mars are named in his honour.
• The Hooke Medal is an annual award by the British Society for Cell Biology, to recognise "an emerging leader in cell biolo… See more