id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1327 Robert Hooke - Wikipedia .html text/html 11393 1197 70 Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English scientist and architect, a polymath, recently called "England's Leonardo",[2] who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism.[3] An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666. He at one point records that one of these housekeepers gave birth to a girl, but doesn't note the paternity of the child.[29] On 3 March 1703, Hooke died in London, and a chest containing £8,000 in money and gold was found in his room at Gresham College.[d] Although he had talked of leaving a generous bequest to the Royal Society which would have given his name to a library, laboratory and lectures, no will was found and the money passed to an illiterate cousin, Elizabeth Stephens.[30] He was buried at St Helen's Bishopsgate, but the precise location of his grave is unknown. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1327.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1327.txt