Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. This volume focuses on the study of Hooke, bringing together…

"Micrographia" is a groundbreaking paintings authored by means of Robert Hooke, a seventeenth-century English scientist and polymath. This book is a tremendous exploration of the microscopic global, marking a pivotal…

Lectiones Cutlerianae - or A collection of lectures, physical, mechanical, geographical & astronomical is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1679. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…

I could also presently judge of any small filament of glass whether it were hollow or not which would have been exceeding tedious to examine by looking on the end.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society.

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

Title: A Year among the Circassians.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…