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English scientist, architect, polymath (–)

Robert HookeFRS (; 18 July &#;&#; 3 March )^[a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.

He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in , using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time.

After the Great Fire of London in , Hooke (as a surveyor and architect) attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]".

Hooke was a Fellow of the Royal Society and from , he was its first C