Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction ... Adamant that her book not be taken as a conventional biography, Ms. Henderson argues that, for Hooke, life and science were of a ...

Seeing cells through a microscope for the first time, in this Moment of Science. The 17th-century English physicist Robert Hooke was curious about the remarkable properties of cork -- its ability ...

financial interest in a rival invention, went out of his way to decry Hooke's achievements, and certainly went beyond what he would have known: the undoubted political, although no doubt innocent ...

THE tercentenary of the birth of Robert Hooke, Gresham professor of astronomy, surveyor to the City of London and curator of experiments to the Royal Society, occurs on July 18 of this year.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...