Earlier in the year, he had entered into a lively conversation with scientist Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren, the noted architect of the new St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Halley suggested ...

Robert Hooke studied the uniaxial force required to extend springs and long straight wires and found it to be proportional to the extension of the device under test. He stated his observation as "Ut ...

This quote is from a letter written to fellow scientist, Robert Hooke in February 1675 ... The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in England in 1643.