Relatively little is known about Robert Hooke's life. Mr. Robert Hooke, born July 28, 1635 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Robert was the son of a churchman, Robert Hooke was a genius among men. His mind did and thought things that the normal mind could not. Although Robert Hooke isn’t remembered as strongly as he should be, his participation in science was amazing, He died in London on March 3, 1703. Robert accomplished many things in his lifetime. One of his most accomplishing moments was when he invented the Microscope which is an extremely important tool in science. Hooke went on the get his degree and continue to invent different things and keep on making discoveries. Robert Hooke lived a life of a peasant. “He was able to enter Westminster School at the age of thirteen, and from there went to Oxford, where some of the best scientists in England were working at the time. Hooke impressed them with his skills at designing experiments and building equipment, and soon became an assistant to the chemist Robert Boyle.(Moore, J. A. 1993)” Hooke is known as the Jack of …show more content…
This invention took a long time but it was well worth it because it dramatically improved science. “Hooke's experiments led him to conclude that combustion involves a substance that is mixed with air, a statement with which modern scientists would agree, but that was not widely understood, if at all, in the seventeenth century. Hooke went on to conclude that respiration also involves a specific component of the air. Partington even goes so far as to claim that if "Hooke had continued his experiments on combustion it is probable that he would have discovered oxygen".(William Derham)” Without the discovery of the microscope science would be so far behind. All of those discoveries and inventions, they wouldn't have been possible without the help of Hooke and his