Robert Hooke Accomplishments
Robert Hooke’s adult life comprised 3 distinct periods. As a scientific inquirer lacking money,
achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty
following the great fire of 1666, but eventually becoming ill and party to jealous intellectual
disputes. These issues may have contributed to his relative historical obscurity.
Robert Hooke was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire. He was also an important architect
achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty
following the great fire of 1666, but eventually becoming ill and party to jealous intellectual
disputes. These issues may have contributed to his relative historical obscurity.
Robert Hooke was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire. He was also an important architect