Hooke excelled as an astronomer and was among the first to build a reflecting telescope, which he named after Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory.
Roberts Huks apliecināja, ka ir spējīgs astronoms, un viens no pirmajiem uzbūvēja spoguļteleskopu, ko viņš nosauca skotu matemātiķa un astronoma Džeimsa Gregorija vārdā.