From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Guy
Chapman aka JzG
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:35:01 -0700, you wrote:
A lot of Hooke's research would probably fit
in better with articles
about the _research_ rather than about the _man_, so if you were to
write an article covering all of that I expect it would also shed
pieces into those topics as well. That's still a net gain for
Wikipedia, so again no reason not to go ahead and write it.
Don't get me wrong - I think Hooke's *research* is a titanic
achievement, he was probably the greatest experimenter of his
age, and that was probably the golden age of the
experimenter. But much of the verifiable detail is things
like "Mr Hooke was asked about the progress of the lenses,
and stated that they required further polishing but would be
ready soon" or words to that effect.
Detail that might be, but it is not what most people would call trivia in
the accepted sense. If the material he used to grind the lenses was the fine
ash produced by burning pieces of the True Cross, then that would be trivia.
Pete, seeking more information on the details