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Robert Hooke was born in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight .
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Hooke decided to become self educated because his parents thought he was too sickly to attend school.
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Became an apprentice of painter, Peter Lely.
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At age 13 Hooke attended Westminster school. He mastered all 6 of Euclid's eliments in a week, learned several languages, and invented over 30 ways to fly
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He attended Christ Church in Oxford.
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Hooke served as an assistant to the English anatomist Thomas Willis.
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Hooke served as an assistant to Robert Boyle, one of England's priemire physical chemist.
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Hooke built an air pump to create a vaccum.
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Hooke sealed himself in an chamber and pumed the air out, to see the effects of low air pressure on hs body.
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Hooke created a way to regulat watches by using springs and balance wheels.
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Hooke and Boyle performed experiments that led to the formula known as Boyle's law.
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Hooke published a pamphlet on capillary action that showed how one substance could draw another substance to it.
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The Royal Society of London named Hooke the curator of experiments.
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Hooke discovered the fifth star in the Orion Trapezuim.
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Hooke wrote Micrographia which first introduced the microscopic universe.
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Hooke became a professor of geometry at Gresham College.
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Hooke wrote a paper on planetary motion.
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Hooke published his lectures on Hooke's law of elasticity.
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Hooke died in London of complications related to diabetes.
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The Royal Society Of London published Hooke's theories on the movement tectonic plates.
