Note 64 — Chapter I · Phytotomy founded by Malpighi and Grew. 1671-1682.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Robert Hooke, born in 1635 at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, was a man of marvellous industry and varied acquirement in spite of a delicate constitution. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1662, and was afterwards its Secretary and Professor of Geometry in Gresham College. He died in 1703. There is a good account of him by de l’Aulnaye in the ‘Biographie Universelle.’