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This book reveals Hooke's important contribution to the rebuilding of London in the shape we know it today. As City Surveyor he worked with Wren and the other King's Commissioners in drafting the rebuilding regulations.
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A more beautiful city: Robert Hooke and the rebuilding of London after the great fire
2003, Sutton
in English
0750929596 9780750929592
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Table of Contents
Part 1. Aspects of a life: Finding by my own trials
These my first labours
A person learned in geometry
The plainness and soundness of observations
At the top of Paul's steeple
A sort of domesticity
Systems and contrivances
Part 2. Building a new city: A great confusion
With alacrity and cheerfulness
The middle way
To the best of my skill, knowledge and power
Calculating the losses
We have met upon the place
Unexpected pressures
For the well-being of all citizens
A perpetual remembrance
A full and glorious restoration
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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