hooke

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)

Two grapling yrons or hookes. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna
M. Cassandra, dau. and heir of Edmund Hooke, of Mulbarton Lodge. — The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes, Charles Dalton
The French captain stripped the `Grace Dogger'--as the chronicler writes--`of rigging, sails, spars, yards, and all furniture wherewith she had been provided for due accommodation of passengers, leaving not so much as a spoone, or a naile, or a hooke to hang anything on.' — Post Haste, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Robert Hooke

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