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Hooke, Dorset Hooke is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated about northeast of the town of Bridport. It is sited in the valley of the short River Hooke, a tributary of the River Frome, amongst the chalk hill ...
, England **
River Hooke The River Hooke is a small river in the county of Dorset in southern England. It runs from its source at Toller Whelme through the villages and hamlets of Hooke, Dorset, Hooke, Kingcombe, Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum to join the River From ...
, nearby watercourse **
Hooke Court Hooke Court is a 17th-century manor house in the parish of Hooke in Dorset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building built around the time of the English Civil War. Standing in about of mature park and woodland, Hooke Court is on the outskir ...
, former manor house at Hooke **
Hooke Park Hooke Park is a 142 hectare woodland in Dorset, England located near the town of Beaminster and within the Dorset National Landscape area. The site is designated as ancient woodland and historically comprised a deer hunting estate. An educatio ...
, Woodland to south west of Hooke *
Robert Hooke Robert Hooke (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living ...
(1635–1703), English natural philosopher who discovered Hooke's law * Hooke (surname), a surname *
Hooke (lunar crater) Hooke is a lunar impact crater that is located to the northwest of the crater Messala, in the northeastern part of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an ave ...
* Hooke (Martian crater) * 3514 Hooke, asteroid


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* Hook (disambiguation) *
Universal joint A universal joint (also called a universal coupling or U-joint) is a joint or coupling connecting rigid shafts whose axes are inclined to each other. It is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion. It consists of a pair of hinges ...
(Hooke's joint) *
Hooke's law In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force () needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance () scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of ...
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