Rough Trade
Steven Shapin: Robert Hooke, 6 March 2003
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703
by Stephen Inwood.
Macmillan, 497 pp., £18.99, September 2002,0 333 78286 0 Show More
by Stephen Inwood.
Macmillan, 497 pp., £18.99, September 2002,
“... world. Recognising that he could have IP with world-changing possibilities, Hooke went to see the King and asked him for a patent – that’s how you could secure your rights to IP in Restoration England, though it was more customary to work through Crown officials. Hooke gave the King an early version of his watch and ... ”