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 ...

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 ...