The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured LondonA biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten maverick a major figure in the 17th century cultural and scientific revolutions. The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Throughout the 1670s he worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London, personally designing many notable public and