Robert Hooke

  • Birth of Robert Hooke

  • Hooke Leaves the Isle of Wright For London

  • Admission into Oxford University

  • Robert Boyle Hires Hooke as an Assistant

  • First Publication

    Publication on the phenomena of surface tension
  • The Royal Society Appoints Boyle as Curator

  • Hooke Presents Microscopic Observations During a Royal Society Meeting

  • Publication of Micrographia

  • Period: to

    Great Plague of London

  • Great Fire of London

  • Hooke Is Sworn as City Surveyor

  • Publication on the Parallaxes of Stars

  • Hooke Is Appointed as Secretary to the Royal Society

  • Publication of Lectures de Potentia Restitutiva

    Also known as Of Spring
  • Hooke Gives Up Secretaryship to the Royal Society

  • Death of Robert Hooke