Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Hooke

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 13:36, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Robert Hooke

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... that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument? Source: Gorvett, Zaria (11 August 2017). "The secret lab hidden inside a famous monument". BBC.
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- Comment: This is a very long-standing article but I have developed it extensively in the past few weeks, copy-editing, verifying sources (and rejecting failures) and fully completing citations

Improved to Good Article status by JMF (talk). Self-nominated at 16:47, 20 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Robert Hooke; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

GA approval date confirmed. Meets all DYK criteria for both article and hook/ hook fact. Interesting hook and article. Great work!4meter4 (talk) 17:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)