Author: Drake, Ellen Tan
Title: Restless Genius : Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughts
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. orig.cloth. 28x21cm, xiv,386 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Robert Hooke's Life & Work: The Life of Robert Hooke; The Isle of Wright & Its Influence on Hooke's Earthly Thoughts; Other Theories of the Earth; Hooke's System of the Earth; Hooke's Concept of Polar Wandering on an Oblate Spheroid Earth; Hooke's Theory of Evolution & Attitude Toward God & Time; Plagiarism or Paranoia? Final Assessment; Hooke's 'Discourse of Earthquakes & Subterraneous Eruptions' (1667-1694); Hooke's 'Discourse of Earthquakes' Transcribed & Annoted by Ellen Tan Drake; Appendices.

Keywords: History of Science, Robert Hooke, English Geologists, Geology, Earth Science, Earthquakes, , ,