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Rita Greer: Robert Hooke and Astronomers at Gresham College
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Robert Hooke and Astronomers at Gresham College |
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English: Hooke designed and made a large telescope which could be hauled up a mast and tilted. His rooms as Professor of Geometry are shown in the corner. Here he lived and worked for most of his adult life, lecturing, researching, writing and setting up experiments for The Royal Society. |
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| Date | 2008 | ||||||||||
| Medium | oil on board | ||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | The original is an oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2008. This was digitized by Rita and sent via email to the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, where it was subsequently uploaded to Wikimedia. | ||||||||||
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