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Robert Hooke
This peer review discussion has been closed. Robert Hooke is one of the pivotal figures of early science. A list of his achievements seems like bragging: he invented the watch escapement, the law of springs, proposed the wave theory of light, demonstrated that breathing and fire consumed the same component of air, coined the biological term "cell", developed a mechanism for surveying cities that allowed the first plan map of London to be drawn, designed important buildings including several churches long attributed to Wren, developed a set of building controls whose influence can still be seen in London today, built the air pumps used for Boyle's gas law experiments, which Hooke also conducted and co-originated the idea of tabulating expected versus achieved results in an experiment, and could also play the organ. He was renowned as the foremost experimental scientist of his age and his fight with Newton is the stuff of legend.

Our article now has this and much other detail but needs to be polished. I believe the subject is sufficiently important that it warrants the effort to make it an FA.

Thanks, Guy (Help!) 20:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Comments by Casliber
Ok, here goes....I do think we should be aiming for GA at least, and hopefully FA status. That way we have a fixed/stable to revision to refer to in case of future article erosion.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I hate choppy paras and the single sentence at the top all by itself in the lead - maybe combine somehow? I'll think on this.....


 * All segments of text need to be referable to an inline cite somehow - so at least one at the end of every para, and rather than slap the same ref at the end of three consecutive sentences, I'd leave the one at the end of the third and add a commented out note outlining how many previous sentences the source refers to.


 * For an extensive study of Hooke's architectural work, see the book by Cooper - looks awkward where it is - this is the sort of thing I'd have in a footnote.


 * He never married, but his diary shows that he was not without affections, and more, for others. - some elucidation here would be good.

Overall the writing/prose isn't bad, and would not require too much work.