The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke | Robert Hooke | Taylor & Francis

ABSTRACT

Published in 1971: This book represents the Posthumous works of the author, as well as lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |70 pages

A General Scheme, or Idea Of the Present State of Natural Philosophy, and How Its Defects may be Remedied By a Methodical Proceeding in the making Experiments and Collecting Observations. Whereby To Compile a Natural History, as the Solid Basis for the Superstructure of True Philosophy

chapter |78 pages

Lectures of Light, Explicating Its Nature, Properties, and Effects, &c

chapter |61 pages

A Discourse of the Nature of Comets

Read at the Meetings of the Royal Society, soon after Michaelmas 1682

chapter |174 pages

Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes, and Subterraneous Eruptions

chapter |122 pages

Lectures concerning Navigation and Astronomy