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 ...

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 ...

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 Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It Climate scientists, advocates, and journalists have unwittingly absorbed propagandistic definitions and narratives that ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1680, Discussion meeting issue: Cells: from Robert Hooke to cell therapy—a 350 year journey (19 October 2015), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) The ...

Joshua Servantez as Isaac Newton and Michael Sherwin as Robert Hooke in Redtwist Theatre's production of Isaac's Eye. Credit: TCMcG Photography Top-flight ensemble acting drives Redtwist Theatre’s ...