Robert Hooke studied the uniaxial force required to extend springs and long straight wires and found it to be proportional to the extension of the device under test. He stated his observation as "Ut ...

This idea isn’t new—it goes back thousands of years. The Romans and Mesopotamians built arches that used compression to ...

A new play explores the mind of the father of modern physics through his interactions—factual and imagined—with a curmudgeonly colleague. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant ...

Earlier in the year, he had entered into a lively conversation with scientist Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren, the noted architect of the new St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Halley suggested ...

We are all familiar with elastic materials – just think of a rubber band which can return to its original shape after being stretched. Humans have used elastic materials for millennia. These days, ...

It’s 1665, and scientist Robert Hooke has just used his newly-invented light microscope to look at a thin slice of cork up close. He’s stunned to see that the tree bark is made up of ...

The first cell observed under a microscope, back in the mid-1660s by physicist Robert Hooke, was a plant cell in a slice of cork. Botanist Robert Brown first named the nucleus after observing opaque ...

1671: Robert Hooke creates the first decompression chamber. He climbs inside a barrel, and has one tenth of the air sucked out, thereby simulating conditions at 3,000 feet; Hooke notices only a ...

Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous areas of science, including some of the first studies of living things using microscopes. Hooke was a major player in the newly-founded Royal ...

Robert Hooke This 17th-century Englishman was a prodigious scientist and inventor. To mention a few of his achievements, he made basic contributions to physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology ...