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ISBN10: 0007151756, ISBN13: 9780007151752, [publisher: Harper Perennial 06/09/2004] Softcover Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
[Reading, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

ISBN10: 0007151756, ISBN13: 9780007151752, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London] Softcover A biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten maverick a major figure in the 17th-century cultural and scientific revolutions. The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Throughout the 1670s he worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London, personally designing many notable public and private buildings, including the monument to the fire. He was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, and author and illustrator of Micrographia, a lavishly illustrated volume of fascinating engravings of natural phenomena as seen under the new microscope. He designed an early balance-spring watch, was a virtuoso performer of public anatomical dissections of animals, and kept himself going with liberal doses of cannabis and poppy water (laudanum). Hookes personal diaries as cryptically confessional as anything Pepys wrote record a life rich with melodrama. He came to London as a fatherless boy of thirteen to seek his fortune as a painter, rising by his wits to become an intellectual celebrity. He never married, but formed a long-running illicit liaison with his niece. A dandy, boaster, workaholic, insomniac and inveterate socialiser in Londons most fashionable circles, Hookes irascible ...

London : Harper Collins, Date: 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: ix, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 20 cm. Subjects: Hooke, Robert 1635-1703; Hooke, Robert 1635-1703 natural philosopher, architect, polymath; Royal Society; Scientists Great Britain ; Biography; Architects Great Britain ; Biography; Inventors Great Britain ; Biography; Scholars Great Britain ; Biography. 2003. London : Harper Collins ISBN 0007151756 9780007151752 [IE]

ISBN10: 0007151756, ISBN13: 9780007151752, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd] Softcover 448 pages. 7.80x5.12x1.18 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

Harper Perennial, Date: 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780007151752 2004. Harper Perennial ISBN 0007151756 9780007151752 [GB]

ISBN10: 0007151756, ISBN13: 9780007151752, [publisher: Harper Perennial] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780007151752
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

Harper Perennial, Date: 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780007151752 2004. Harper Perennial ISBN 0007151756 9780007151752 [GB]

Harper Perennial 2004 Mass-market paperback This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 9780007151752.