Rough Trade
Steven Shapin: Robert Hooke, 6 March 2003
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703
by Stephen Inwood.
Macmillan, 497 pp., £18.99, September 2002,0 333 78286 0 Show More
by Stephen Inwood.
Macmillan, 497 pp., £18.99, September 2002,
“... to him, to have his intellectual property pirated. When it came to such things, Hooke was, as Stephen Inwood rightly says, ‘a rough fighter’. That attitude was at once wholly natural and deeply problematic in Restoration scientific circles. As Rob Iliffe and Adrian Johns have shown, it was the norm for mechanics and tradesmen vigorously to ... ”