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Hooke was a bit of a polymath, and did a number of things. Today he's probably best remembered for Hooke's Law, which has to do with the tension in an elastic spring. However, he also actively studied gravity (and corresponded with Newton about it), microscopy, astronomy, and Paleontology.

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