St Edmund, King and Martyr
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St Edmund, King and Martyr, is an Anglican church in Lombard Street, in the City of London, dedicated to St Edmund the Martyr. From 2001 it housed the London Centre for Spirituality, renamed the Londo
City of London, Church of St Edmund geograph.org.uk 6862652
Great east window
Now a Centre for Spirituality
Interior
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
St Edmund, King and Martyr
…the parish was united with that of St Nicholas Acons, which was also destroyed and not rebuilt. The present church was constructed to the designs of Robert Hooke (signed off by Sir Christopher Wren) in 1670–1679, with a tower ornamented at the angles by flaming urns in allusion to the Great Fire. George Godwin…
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.