Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the ...

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665's ...

Robert Hooke helped shape some of the biggest scientific ideas of the 17th century, but his bitter feud with Isaac Newton ...

English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703) is known to history more for losing quarrels with better-known scientists than for his achievements. He dared challenge Newton for credit as discoverer of ...

Seventeenth-century English polymath Robert Hooke played a pivotal role in developing scientific methodology, according to this enlightening debut history. Henderson, an archives and material culture ...

Considering his accomplishments, it’s a surprise that Robert Hooke isn’t more renowned. As a physician, I especially esteem him as the person who identified biology’s most essential unit, the cell.

A last-minute deal reached on Tuesday ensures a manuscript charting the birth of modern science, lost for more than 200 years, will be housed at Britain’s Royal Society rather than falling into ...

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," returns with "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human" ...

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 my MA ...

Robert Hooke is usually remembered, when he is remembered at all, for having lost out in arguments with Isaac Newton over who should be credited for theories about the nature of light and the law of ...