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an' maHiin (1 In/ 11 heels, and Engines, and bprinqs. that were devised 



SupoiMiiKliiio-. 7 am ahundanth/ satisfied; and all m>, ambition is. that 

 I nun, •^,,1' lo the qttat Philosophers of this Aqe, as tlu malo'^ and the 

 qinideis of nn, Classes did to me, that I maif prepaie and furnish them 

 uilh ^, me M u< nil^ ulmh thei, maii afteiitards oidei and manaqe uith 



louaut th' ,n >^ ,n nf thi. mdhod in Physical Inquiries, I haie 

 hen and tin. A, uud ,i,> an huuHn] of Obsetxations, in the collection 

 of mo.i of >,hi,h I iK<nh nf Mid.w'ope^. and some other Glasses 

 and riiMinnKiit^ that imp, n th s „se, uhich uaqlhaie heiein talen, 



The Mutlior of tliis work was a versatilo genius who 

 ap])]ie(I liis ])o\\er^ to a wide field of endeavor— physics, 

 chemistry, mathematics, mechanics, architecture and 

 pliilo.soi)liy — fields which long since have expanded be- 

 yond tlie grasp of one man, and which, even in his own 

 time and hv himself, might more profitably have been 

 coped with singly. It is impossible to adequately sur- 

 vey TTooke's vni-ied career within the limits imposed by 

 this paper, Imt tlu^ t ollowiiig extracts fram his biography, 

 appended hy Hicli.-i i-d Wjilicr to Hooke's "Posthumous 

 Works," show wliat niniiiier of man he was (cf. Fig. 5). 



