John Wilkins
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John Wilkins was an English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
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An 18th-century engraving of John Wilkins, Chester
Wilkins' signature as Secretary, signing off the 1667 accounts of the Royal Society, from the minutes book
Frontispiece of John Wilkins "An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668)
Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke was an English polymath who was active as a physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at m
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…Scarburgh), it included (in the account of Thomas Sprat) Ralph Bathurst, Robert Boyle, William Petty, Lawrence Rooke, Thomas Willis, and Matthew Wren. Robert Hooke was gradually recruited into the Wilkins group: he arrived at Christ Church, Oxford in 1653, working his way to an education, became assistant to Willis…
c. 1680 Portrait of a Mathematician by Mary Beale, of an unknown subject, conjectured to be Hooke or Isaac Barrow
1689 portrait of Robert Boyle by Johann Kerseboom, at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
Illustration from The posthumous works of Robert Hooke... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1707
Hooke noted the shadows (a and b) cast by both the globe and the rings on each other in this drawing of Saturn.