Lisa Jardine: "The Curious Life of Robert Hooke" (HarperCollins) (Rebroadcast)

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 11:06 a.m.

Author Lisa Jardine talks about Robert Hooke, a man she describes as a "a founding figure in the European scientific revolution," and explains why he never got the same level of recognition as his contemporaries Sir Isaac Newton...

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Lisa Jardine

Renaissance historian and author

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