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Lisa Jardine
Robert Hooke and the Art of Always Coming Second
Hay Festival 2004,
Illuminating London's critical role in the emergence of modern science, the acclaimed biographer and critic rediscovers and decodes a great original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination, a major figure in the seventeenth century intellectual and scientific revolution.