Definitions for "Hooke"
Hooke is a lunar crater that is located to the northwest of the Messala crater, in the northeastern part of the Moon. It lies about a crater diameter to the southeast of the comparably-sized Shuckburgh crater.
English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)