THIS was our first look at the realm of the invisible. In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia brought microscopic observations out of his laboratory to a wider world. Hooke believed that ...

In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, a book full of drawings depicting views through what was then a novel invention: the microscope. Peering at a slice of cork through ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke's theory that a hanging chain will mirror the shape of an upstanding rigid arch. However, new research now shows ...

In Lloyd’s The Bloodless Boy (Melville House, Nov.), scientist Robert Hooke, England’s Leonardo, investigates gruesome murders in 17th-century London. What gripped you about Hooke? When doing ...