question: What is an alternate name for a universal joint that is also the last name of an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath?
answer: Hooke
context: Title: Robert Hooke
  Passage: Robert Hooke FRS ( ; 28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635  – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
  Title: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
  Passage: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (Spanish: "El idioma analitico de John Wilkins") is a short essay by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges originally published in "Otras Inquisiciones (1937–1952)".  It is a critique of the English natural philosopher and writer John Wilkins's proposal for a universal language and of the representational capacity of language generally.  In it, Borges imagines a bizarre and whimsical (and fictional) Chinese taxonomy later quoted by Michel Foucault, David Byrne, and others.
  Title: John Clarke (Dean of Salisbury)
  Passage: John Clarke (1682–1757) was an English natural philosopher and Dean of Salisbury from 1728 to his death in 1757.
  Title: Adelard of Bath
  Passage: Adelard of Bath (Latin: "Adelardus Bathensis" ; , "Antelarnt tou Bath"; 1080 c. 1152 AD) was a 12th-century English natural philosopher.  He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Arabic and Greek scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin from Arabic versions, which were then introduced to Western Europe.  He is known as one of the first to introduce the Arabic numeral system to Europe.  He stands at the convergence of three intellectual schools: the traditional learning of French schools, the Greek culture of Southern Italy, and the Arabic science of the East.
  Title: Boyle Mountains
  Passage: The Boyle Mountains are a wall of mountains standing between the heads of Lallemand Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord, in Graham Land.  They were mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and from air photos, 1946–59, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert Boyle, the English natural philosopher whose book "New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold" provided the first major scientific and practical approach to a philosophy of cold in all its aspects.
  Title: Opticks
  Passage: Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704.  (A scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706.)  The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders.  It is considered one of the great works of science in history.  "Opticks" was Newton's second major book on physical science.  Newton's name did not appear on the title page of the first edition of "Opticks".
  Title: Universal joint
  Passage: A universal joint (universal coupling, U-joint, Cardan joint, Spicer or Hardy Spicer joint, or Hooke's joint) is a joint or coupling connecting rigid rods whose axes are inclined to each other, and is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion.  It consists of a pair of hinges located close together, oriented at 90° to each other, connected by a cross shaft.  The universal joint is not a constant-velocity joint.
  Title: Francis Wollaston (philosopher)
  Passage: Francis John Hyde Wollaston FRS (13 April 1762, London – 12 October 1823) was an English natural philosopher and Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge.
  Title: Henry Coddington
  Passage: Henry Coddington (1798/9, Oldbridge, County Meath — 3 March 1845, Rome) was an English natural philosopher, fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge and Church of England clergyman.
  Title: Nicholas Hill (scientist)
  Passage: Nicholas Hill (1570-1610?)  was an English natural philosopher, considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno.  He is known for his 1601 book "Philosophia epicurea".
citations: Robert Hooke Universal joint