Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the ...

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 ...

Robert Hooke discovered the cell, established experimentation as crucial to scientific research, and did pioneering work in optics, gravitation, paleontology, architecture, and more. Yet history ...

Viewers of last Sunday's episode of Cosmos were treated to an empowering, true story: of comets and intellectual brilliance, and learned knowledge conquering blind fear. We learned how one of the ...

Although a portrait of Robert Hooke was seen at the Royal Society in 1710, none exists now apart from the memorial window at St Helen's Bishopsgate, which is merely a formulaic portrait. The absence ...

Some devotees of Robert Hooke have regarded him as Britain's greatest scientific genius of the seventeenth century, the range of his interests and achievements being hard to conceive. He is a fruitful ...

Shortly after lunchtime on Wednesday 26 June 1689, Robert Hooke began delivering one of his regular lectures at the Royal Society, London. These were dramatic performances in which he would entertain ...

Engraving of a flea; Schem.XXIV. 'Micrographia', published in 1665, is the result of detailed observations by Robert Hooke using the recently invented microscope. The publication was funded by The ...

The long-lost manuscript belonging to pioneering scientist Robert Hooke has returned to the Royal Society. The hand-written notes are thought to contain a "treasure trove" of information about the ...

Robert Hooke was a scientist, artist, and nemesis to Isaac Newton. In his spare time, he engaged in one of the most celebrated science art projects. To do so, he was forced to get an ant drunk. Yes, ...