There were few areas of science which Robert Hooke' didn't risk trying. This 17th century scientist was 1 for contributing to our knowledge of everything from mathematics and mechanics to biology and astronomy.
Robert Hooke began his series of interests as a keen 2. He lived with his parents until the age of 13. Being a sickly child, he was a latecomer to 3. Instead of attending school, he spent much of his childhood drawing. But his lack of an early education didn't 4 Hooke realizing his genius. It was his later entrance to Westminster School that would 5 him down a scientific path. Here he discovered that his talents lay beyond 6, particularly in mathematics, mechanics and languages.
Hooke's 7 scientific interests helped set the society in motion during its early years. Many people are 8 of Hooke's work in microscopy, but in 1653, at the age of 18, Hooke 9 Christ Church College at Oxford, where he spent much time building telescopes. Shortly after in 1660, he discovered a physical law that would later be 10 after him: Hooke's law. Hooke is best known for discovering and 11 the living cell. He became the first to examine different fossil types with a microscope and he 12 how mosquitoes suck blood.
After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke was given the opportunity to try his 13 at architecture to design a monument and decided to 14 some practicality to the aesthetic (美学). 15 this 60-metre-tall structure, Hooke built an underground 16 where he could conduct science experiments, while the central passage was built to 17 a large telescope.
Since his death in 1703, scientists continue to be 18 and benefit from Hooke's findings. As he quotes in his book Micrographia, "By the means of 19, there is nothing so far distant but maybe represented to our view; and by the help of microscopes, there is nothing so 20 as to escape our inquiry."
