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 ...

Robert Hooke conducted experiments in the area of acoustics and discovered that sound could be transmitted over wire or string into an attached earpiece or mouthpiece. Hooke was an ingenious inventor ...

The history artist Rita Greer says, "Robert Hooke, brilliant, ingenious seventeenth century scientist was brushed under the carpet of history by Sir Isaac Newton and his cronies.

One of the most brilliant and versatile figures of his time, Robert Hooke (1635-1703) died a disappointed man. His own law, Hooke’s Law, has to do with elasticity, but he brought a piercing ...

Robert Hooke’s star is currently in the ascendant. The latest book on this scientist and polymath, which came out in March, is the seventh such work to be published in little more than three years. At ...

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.

In “Micrographia”, Hooke presented the first depiction of a microrganism, the microfungus Mucor. Robert Hooke used his microscope to study the ancient cells in fossilized wood.

The history artist Rita Greer says, “Robert Hooke, brilliant, ingenious seventeenth century scientist was brushed under the carpet of history by Sir Isaac Newton and his cronies.

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 ...