The Curious Life of Robert Hooke The Man Who Measured London

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A biography of a major figure in the seventeenth-century cultural and scientific revolutions. Robert Hooke combined the skills of engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor. He was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666, working side by side with Christopher Wren to rebuild the capital, designing many notable public and private buildings, including the Monument to the fire.

`A vivid map of the byways of patronage and politics that governed British intellectual life...fascinating and impeccably researched.' The Guardian

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Biography

Lisa Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies at QMW, London, and honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She writes regularly for all the UK's major national broadsheets. She has judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and was chair of the 1997 Orange Prize. She is married, has three children, and lives in London.