When1: 1657
When2: 1665
Who: Robert Hooke [Hooke, Robert]
What: biologist/physicist/inventor
Where: England
works\ anchor escapement for clocks [1657]; Micrographs [1665]
Detail: He lived 1635 to 1703, invented Hooke's law [1660], and observed cork cells under microscope [1663]. He invented universal joint, iris diaphragm, anchor escapement {anchor escapement}, and balance spring [1660].
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