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* 1665 — In his book Micrographia Robert Hooke compares petrified wood to wood, concludes that petrified wood formed from wood soaked in mineral rich water, and argues fossils like Ammonite shells, were produced the same way, sparking debate over the organic origin of fossils and the possibility of extinction.
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* 1665 — Francesco Maria Grimaldi highlights the phenomenon of diffraction
By the spring of 1666, the Dutch had rebuilt their fleet with much heavier ships — thirty of them possessing more cannon than any Dutch ship in early 1665 — and threatened to join with the French.
* Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U. S., used as a stronghold in Bacon's Rebellion
Bargemen born in Ware were given the " freedom of the River Thames " — avoiding the requirement of paying lock dues — as a result of their transport of fresh water and food to London during The Great Plague of 1665 – 66.
Bargemen born in Ware were given the " freedom of the River Thames " — avoiding the requirement of paying lock dues — as a result of their transport of fresh water and food in during the great plague of 1665 – 66.
By the spring of 1666, the Dutch had rebuilt their fleet with much heavier ships — thirty of them possessing more cannon than any Dutch ship in early 1665 — and threatened to join with the French.
His book Metallum Martis ( 1665 — quoted above ) is Dudd Dudley's personal view of his discovery, after he had unsuccessfully petitioned King Charles II, to restore his public offices and patents.
During the reign of the Habsburg king Philip IV in the 17th century ( 1621 – 1665 ), there were effectively only two patrons of art in Spain — the church and the king with his court.
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The descriptive term for the smallest living biological structure was coined by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in .< ref name =" Hooke ">"< cite >...
Robert Hooke was the first to use a microscope to observe living things ; his 1665 book Micrographia contained descriptions of plant cells.
In 1665 Hooke published Micrographia, a book describing microscopic and telescopic observations, and some original work in biology.
His daughter Maria Evelyn ( 1665 – 1685 ) is sometimes acknowledged as the pseudonymous author of the book Mundus Muliebris of 1690.
His chief prose works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England ( London, 1665 ), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbière's book Relation d ’ un voyage en Angleterre ( Paris, 1664 ), and a History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1667 ), which Sprat had helped to found.
Newton must have left college before August 1665, as his name does not appear in the list of those who received extra commons on that occasion, and he tells us himself in the extract from his commonplace book already quoted that he was " forced from Cambridge by the plague " in the summer of that year.
Metallum Martis, a 1665 book by Dud Dudley, is the earliest known reference to the use of coal in metallurgical smelting.
Aetite, along with bloodstone ( hematite ), was the subject of a 1665 book by J. L.
1665 and Micrographia
He argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665, in a 1666 Royal Society lecture " On gravity ", and again in 1674, when he published his ideas about the " System of the World " in somewhat developed form, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".
In 1663 and 1664, Hooke produced his microscopical observations, subsequently collated in Micrographia in 1665.
While many of his contemporaries believed in the aether as a medium for transmitting attraction or repulsion between separated celestial bodies, Hooke argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665.
Robert Hooke referred to a " Land-Crab " in his 1665 work Micrographia.
A few lensmakers and natural philosophers had been creating crude microscopes since the late 16th century, and Robert Hooke published the seminal Micrographia based on observations with his own compound microscope in 1665.
Among these publications was Micrographia of 1665 by Robert Hooke, who later would discover Hooke ’ s Law.
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In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells, a term he coined, in cork, and a short time later in living plant tissue.
The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665.
* 1665 – Robert Hooke stated: " Heat being nothing else but a very brisk and vehement agitation of the parts of a body.
The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665.
From the 17th century they were used as a literary form by aristocratic authors including Robert Sempill ( c. 1595-c. 1665 ), Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw ( 1627 – 1727 ) and Lady Grizel Baillie ( 1645 – 1746 ).
The Jocelyn Baronetcy, of Hyde Hall in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of England in 1665 for Robert Jocelyn.
This Vale Royal branch of the Cholmondeley family descends from Thomas Cholmondeley ( died 1653 ), younger brother of Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Leinster and Hugh Cholmondeley ( 1591 – 1665 ), ancestor of the Marquesses of Cholmondeley.
The baronetcy, Dukinfield of Dukinfield, Cheshire was created in 1665 for Robert Dukinfield, son of Colonel Robert Dukinfield.
* Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull ( 1665 – 1726 ), third and youngest son of Robert Pierrepont
* 1665 – Robert Hooke, using a microscope, observes cells
The second structure was built on the same site by Robert Mylne under the orders of Charles II at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665 at a cost of £ 28, 000.
While in the household, Swift would read passages from Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects ( 1665 ) for the young Esther Johnson (" Stella " to Swift ).
In 1665 the Roundhead Robert Lilburne died imprisoned on the island.
In 1665 King Charles II granted letters patent to Sir Robert Reading to erect six lighthouses on the coast of Ireland, one of which was at Hook Head on the site of the older lighthouse, the others being at Howth, one to mark the land, the other to lead over the bar ; the Old Head of Kinsale, Barry Oge's castle ( now Charlesfort, near Kinsale ), and the Isle of Magee.
Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, ( alternatively Vyner ) ( 1631-2 September 1688 ), Lord Mayor of London, was born in Warwick, but migrated in early life to London, where he was apprenticed to his uncle, Sir Thomas Vyner ( 1558 – 1665 ), a goldsmith, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1653-1654.
Soon Robert became a partner in his kinsman's business, and in 1666 an alderman of the city of London ; in 1665 he was made a knight, and in the following year a baronet.
Colonel Robert Lilburne ( 1613 – 1665 ) was the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller.
Sir Robert Long bought Athelhampton House in 1665 from Sir Ralph Bankes.
1665 and Hooke
In 1664 – 1665 Robert Hooke experimented with sound transmission through a distended wire.
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