The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Lawrence Rooke (1619/20 - 1662)

Professor of astronomy and then geometry at Gresham College. A founding member of the Royal Society, two of his writings appeared posthumously in Sprat's History of the Royal Society. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24062 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Rooke Relationships: Lawrence Rooke was a member of Oxford Philosophical Society (1649-1660)
Lawrence Rooke was a member of Royal Society (-)

 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science.
as Mentions or references - London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach .
as - Hunting Weapons .
 References in Documents:
London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach At the side of this room stood a large and handsome pendulum-clock, on which this inscription might be read: Societati Regali Ad Scientiam Naturalem promovendam institutae dono dedit Reverendus in Christo Pater Sethus Episcopus Exon. ejusdem societatis Sodalis in memoriam Laurentii Rook, viri omnium litterarum genere instructissimi in Collegio Greshamensi primum astronomiae dein Geometriae Professoris dictaequae societatis nuper Sodalis qui obit 1662.