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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London [Buy it!] | Jardine Lisa | USD 17.50 (Fri May 17 17:32:28 2024) | Biblio | West Side Book Shop, ABAA | New York: HarperCollins, Date: 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large Octavo. ix (i), 422 pp, preface, introduction,, 8 titled chapters with b&w illustrations, notes, illustrations acknowledgments, bibliography, index. stated First American Edition, 2004. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.25". Illustrated glossy laminated boards. "Robert Hooke (1635-1703)] was an English polymath active as a scientist and architect, who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism. An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666.". 2004. HarperCollins ISBN 006053897X 9780060538972 [US] |