 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1925 - 460 páginas
...and others of most eminent worth. Above all, Mr Boyle was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw." ' Povy, who introduced him or stood sponsor for him, was Member of Parliament for Liskeard,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1925 - 454 páginas
...others of most eminent worth. Above all, Mr Boyle was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke, who ia the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw." ' Povy, who introduced him or stood sponsor for him, was Member of Parliament for Liskeard,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 1258 páginas
...of most eminent worth. Above all, Mr. Boyle to-day was at the meeting, and above him Mr. Hooke,4 who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse till ten at night, and then home, and to Sir W. Batten's, where I hear that... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 páginas
...day he wrote "Above all, Mr. [Robert] Boyle today was at the meeting, and above him Mr. Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw" (2.15.65; 6.36 - 37). For Huygens, Hooke, Brouncker, Bruce, and other principal players,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1997 - 820 páginas
...others, of the most eminent worth. Above all, Mr Boyle was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse till ten at night, and then home. 17th. Povy tells me how my Lord Barkeley... | |
 | Alan W. Hirshfeld - 2002 - 340 páginas
...man. The ever-perceptive Samuel Pepys tidily sums him up in a diary entry dated February 15, 1664: Hooke "is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw." The rumored sole portrait of Hooke, if it ever existed, was reportedly disposed of by... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - 2009 - 448 páginas
..."something crooked." He apparently suffered from scoliosis. London diarist Samuel Pepys observed that he "is the most and promises the least of any man in the world that ever I saw." Hooke spewed forth ideas and experiments involving blood transfusion, mechanics, cartography, skin... | |
 | Jack Kelly - 2004 - 282 páginas
...it to his one-time assistant to take the matter further. Samuel Pepys noted in his diary that Robert Hooke "is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw." As brilliant as he was emaciated, Hooke connected the experiments he had conducted with... | |
 | Allan Chapman - 2004 - 392 páginas
...these luminaries, Pepys recorded 'Above all, Mr Boyle was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw. Here excellent 216 discourses till ten at night, and then home.'4 Was Pepys's ambiguous... | |
 | Paul Welberry Kent, Allan Chapman - 2005 - 398 páginas
...an engine on purpose . . . Above all, Mr Boyle today was at the meeting, and above him Mr Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world that I ever saw.2 Hooke's later role as Secretary was not without its difficulties, but his astonishing... | |
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Change, and there my Lord and most of the company to a club supper ; Sir P. Neale. Sir B. Murray, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of the most eminent worth. Above all Mr. Boyle was at the meeting, and above him, Mr. Hooke. who is the... 
