Robert Hooke By cami.carpentier Jul 18, 1635 Birth of Robert Hooke 1648 Hooke Leaves the Isle of Wright For London 1653 Admission into Oxford University 1655 Robert Boyle Hires Hooke as an Assistant 1661 First Publication Publication on the phenomena of surface tension 1662 The Royal Society Appoints Boyle as Curator Apr 23, 1663 Hooke Presents Microscopic Observations During a Royal Society Meeting 1665 Publication of Micrographia Period: 1665 to 1666 Great Plague of London 1666 Great Fire of London Mar 14, 1667 Hooke Is Sworn as City Surveyor 1674 Publication on the Parallaxes of Stars 1677 Hooke Is Appointed as Secretary to the Royal Society 1678 Publication of Lectures de Potentia Restitutiva Also known as Of Spring 1682 Hooke Gives Up Secretaryship to the Royal Society Mar 3, 1703 Death of Robert Hooke