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Created page with "== Boris de Zirkoff == '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Hooke, Robert}}'''. English experimental physicist, b. at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, July 18, 1635; d. in London, Mch. 3, 1703. After 1655, was employed and patronized by the Hon. Robert Boyle. Appointed, 1662, curator of experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1663. Appointed, 1665, professor of geometry in Gresham college. Secretary to the Royal Society, 1677-83, and pub..."