Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Robert Hooke across 4 places, from 1635 to 1703.
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Robert Hooke (18 July 1635 to 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ('natural philosopher'), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Robert Hooke was documented, and when
1635year
Freshwater, Isle of Wightattested“Hooke was born in 1635 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to Cecily Gyles and the Anglican priest John Hooke, who was the curate of All Saints' Church, Freshwater.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1655year
University of Oxfordattested“In 1655, Boyle moved to Oxford and Hooke became nominally his assistant but in practice his co-experimenter.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1664year
Gresham Collegeattested“The Society did not have a reliable income to fully fund the post of Curator of Experiments but in 1664, John Cutler settled an annual gratuity of £50 on the Society to found a "" lectureship at Gresham College on the understanding the S…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
3 March 1703exact date
Londonattested“Hooke died in London on 3 March 1703, having been blind and bedridden during the last year of his life.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
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1653 to 1662period
Christ Church, Oxfordmentioned“In 1653, Hooke secured a place at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving free tuition and accommodation as an organist and a chorister, and a basic income as a servitor, (despite the fact he did not officially matriculate until 1658.) In 1662,…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1666 to 1679period
Royal Societymentioned“In a communication to the Royal Society in 1666, he wrote: Hooke's 1674 Gresham lecture, An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observations (published 1679), said gravitation applies to "all celestial bodies" and restated these…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1666year
City of Londonmentioned“Robert Hooke was Surveyor to the City of London and chief assistant to Christopher Wren, in which capacities he helped Wren rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1672 to 1674period
Great Fire of Londonmentioned“Hooke designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London (1672), Montagu House in Bloomsbury (1674) and Bethlem Royal Hospital (1674), which became known as "Bedlam".”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1672 to 1674period
Bloomsburymentioned“Hooke designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London (1672), Montagu House in Bloomsbury (1674) and Bethlem Royal Hospital (1674), which became known as "Bedlam".”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1679year
Willenmentioned“Other buildings Hooke designed include the Royal College of Physicians (1679); Aske's Hospital (1679), Ragley Hall, Warwickshire (1680); the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Willen, Buckinghamshire (1680) and Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire (1681).”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1682year
Royal Societymentioned“In a 1682 lecture to the Royal Society, Hooke proposed a mechanical analogue model of human memory that bore little resemblance to the mainly philosophical models of earlier writers.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
1686year
Royal Societymentioned“(Hooke's inference about the velocity is incorrect.) In 1686, when the first book of Newton's Principia was presented to the Royal Society, Hooke said he had given Newton the "notion" of "the rule of the decrease of Gravity, being recipr…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
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