ABSTRACT

Shortly after Hooke died in 1703, his miscellaneous papers and unpublished manuscripts were entrusted to Richard Waller, who edited and published some of them in a volume titled The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke (1705; reprinted, Frank Cass, 1968). Waller himself died, however, before he was able to complete the task of republishing Hooke’s papers and they were eventually handed on to William Derham. After delaying for what some of Hooke’s followers thought to be a scandalously long time, Derham finally published this volume in 1726. It contains numerous papers and notes by Hooke as well as a number of important papers and letters written by Hooke’s contemporaries and found, evidently, among Hooke’s literary remains.

This is an exact facsimile reproduction of Derham’s edition of the Philosophical experiments and Observations of the late Eminent Dr. Rober Hooke (1726) except that an analytical table of contents, prepared by the General Editor, has been added.

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter |4 pages

On Bees-Wax

chapter |2 pages

Hooke's Weather-Clock

chapter |1 pages

Toinard on Longitude

chapter |3 pages

Leuwenhoek on Animalcules

chapter |4 pages

Yonge's Letter to Hooke

chapter |2 pages

Hooke on Earths, Salts, &c

chapter |4 pages

Experiments on Compression

chapter |1 pages

Observations of Sound

chapter |2 pages

Hooke's Windmill

chapter |3 pages

Japanese Scales

chapter |5 pages

Hooke on the Barometer

chapter |3 pages

Bolognian Phosphorus

chapter |1 pages

Liquid Phosphorus

chapter |3 pages

Baldwyn on Phosphorus

chapter |2 pages

De Germinatione Metalli

chapter |1 pages

Baldwyn on Tin

chapter |2 pages

On Orvietano

chapter |2 pages

Ink for Printing

chapter |5 pages

Hooke on Gems

chapter |2 pages

Gray on a Solar Eclipse