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 ...

350 years old, Robert Hooke's Micrographia is a hidden treasure in Kew's library ... Hooke was appointed City of London surveyor and designed numerous buildings, the most well known being Bedlam ...

and Newton is known to have been unfavourably inclined towards Hooke. The neglect was in part remedied when Waller printed the ” Posthumous Works” of Robert Hooke in 1705.

1672: Robert Hooke creates the first acoustic telephone ... a button in intervals to transmit a pattern of sounds. This was known as Morse code. 1849: Innocenzo Manzetti, an Italian inventor ...

“Her mother had connections and they could get train tickets because her mother was a well-known ... Hooke said his mother returned to Salzburg and met an American soldier, Robert Hooke Jr ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton ... interpreted as a sarcastic remark directed at his rival Robert Hooke, who may have had a pronounced curvature of the spine ...

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 ...

His fellow scientists John Flamsteed, Robert Hooke, and Henry Oldenberg were just a few of those who at times felt the sting of Newton's viciousness. Sir Isaac's most famous quotation may well ...