Fact 1
There are no authenticated portraits of Hooke to exist and it is said that his portrait in the Royal Society was purposely destroyed.
Fact 2
He worked on the designs of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Greenwich Observatory and other buildings in the 1600's.
Fact 3
When he was a child he took an interest in drawing and he would make his own materials from chalk, iron ore and coal.
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