London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke Hardcover - 2003

Jim Bennett is Director of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. He is author of The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren (Cambridge University Press, 2002), The Divided Circle (Phaidon-Christie's, 1987), and Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1990).
Michael Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Surveying at City University, London. He is author and contributor (as M. A. R. Cooper) to books, papers and conference proceedings on instrumentation and mathematical modelling for engineering surveying, close-range photogrammetry, and machine vision. Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in late 17th-century Scotland (Boydell Press, 2001), Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (Boydell Press, 2000), and Preserving the Past: the Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain (Sutton Publishing, 1996). He is Editor-in Chief of The Works of Robert Boyle (14 vols., 1999-2000, with Edward B. Davis) and The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (6 vols., 2001, with Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M. Principe; Pickering & Chatto). Lisa Jardine is a full-time academic, who combines a scholarly career as a historian with a high media profile. She is currently Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Her scholarly books include From Humanism to the Humanities (with Anthony Grafton), Erasmus, Man of Letters, and Reading Shakespeare Historically. She has published more than 50 full-length articles in refereed academic journals. She has also written two history books for the general market: Worldly Goods (Macmillan, 1996) and Ingenious Pursuits (Little, Brown 1999). Her biography of Sir Christopher Wren, entitled On A Grander Scale: The Career of Christopher Wren was published by HarperCollins in September 2002