Biography on Robert Hooke

ROBERT HOOKE Robert Hooke was born on July 18, 1635, in Freshwater, on Wight Island. His father was a minister who was his home-school teacher. He was an art Apprentice while being taught at home also. When he was thirteen years old Robert attended Westminster School, and later Oxford where some of the best scientists in England were working. Robert Hooke impressed them with his skills at designing and building equipments. He soon became an assistant to …

…other means, came to be thrown to that place, and there to be fill'd with some kind of mud or clay, or petrifying water, or some other substance. . . " Robert Hooke achieved a lot in his life and all his observations still help us study life and cells. His work has formed the basis for Cytology, the study of cells. Without his discoveries we wouldn't be as far as we are now in the scientific world.