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Robert Hooke

Photograph at the Robert Hooke black plaque

In a house on this site between 1655 and 1668 lived Robert Boyle. Here he discovered Boyle's Law and made experiments with an air pump designed by his assistant Robert Hooke, inventor, scientist and architect who made a microscope and thereby first identified the living cell

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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