Robert Hooke on BBC4 late tonite

For those with Satellite and Digital, there is a programme on BBC4 tonight/
early morning at 1.10am - 2.10am.

Titled Robert Hooke - The Lost Genius.

Did anyone see last weeks programme called Galilaeo's Daughter? Really quite
interesting :-)

Clear skies

Martin A

"Stargazer" wrote
For those with Satellite and Digital, there is a programme on BBC4 tonight/
early morning at 1.10am - 2.10am.

Titled Robert Hooke - The Lost Genius.

Did anyone see last weeks programme called Galilaeo's Daughter? Really quite
interesting :-)

Clear skies

Martin A

There was some programme on TV a while ago (maybe one of the Discovery
channels) about Hooke and Newton and the animosity between them. Quite
entertaining! And "Six Experiments The Changed The World" with the unique
Ken Campbell (Is that his name?) (He used to be in "In Sickness and In Health"
too!) had a programme about Newton's use of a prism to split white light
into a spectrum, which was also not bad at all.

Hooke is not completely forgotten; we still learn about Hooke's Law in
school!


Martin
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JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.sci.astronomy, Stargazer posted
at Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:19:09 :-
For those with Satellite and Digital, there is a programme on BBC4 tonight/
early morning at 1.10am - 2.10am.

Titled Robert Hooke - The Lost Genius.

Could be derived from ISBN 0-00-714944-1 "The Curious Life of ROBERT
HOOKE", Lisa Jardine, HarperCollins/Publishers/, London, £25-00.

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"Fleetie" wrote
There was some programme on TV a while ago (maybe one of the Discovery
channels) about Hooke and Newton and the animosity between them. Quite
entertaining! And "Six Experiments The Changed The World" with the unique
Ken Campbell (Is that his name?) (He used to be in "In Sickness and In Health"
too!) had a programme about Newton's use of a prism to split white light
into a spectrum, which was also not bad at all.

Oh. Saw most of it last night, and it was the one I'd already seen!


Martin
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"Stargazer" wrote in message
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For those with Satellite and Digital, there is a programme on BBC4
tonight/
early morning at 1.10am - 2.10am.

Titled Robert Hooke - The Lost Genius.

Did anyone see last weeks programme called Galilaeo's Daughter? Really
quite
interesting :-)

Clear skies

Martin A



thread title, quite a good trick for someone who has been dead for
around 300 yrs...

Hooke did a lot more than discover "Hooke's Law". He was probably the first
person to observe and report the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (he was the first
to write about it--what isn't certain is whether or not it really was the
GRS); he made careful anatomical drawings of fleas and other tiny life forms
through a microscope; he was the first to publish something that looks a lot
like the theory of universal gravitation (hence the long dispute with
Newton); etc.

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