These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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 (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 ...

Survivors include two sons, Robert Hooke, of Ruxton, and Jeffrey “Jeff” Hooke, of Chevy Chase; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son, Alex Hooke, died in 2023.

IN his account of the extraordinarily intriguing, human and intimate part of the ” Diary of Robert Hooke”, published in NATURE of September 7, Prof. Andrade has suggested that the biographer ...

A Lancaster aircraft is set to fly over Milton Keynes next month as part of events to honour a man who designed what has been ...

Indeed, apart from an article by A. P. Pavlow entitled “Robert Hooke, un evolutioniste oublie du XVIIe siecle” (Palaeobiologica, 1; 1928), and brief references, with extracts from his writings ...

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.

DR. ROBERT HOOKE is generally allowed to have been one of the greatest promoters of Experimental Natural Knowledge, as well as Ornaments of the seventeenth century, so fruitful of great genius.” ...