Some devotees of Robert Hooke have regarded ... who still advocated naked-eye instruments for astronomy. Hooke was clearly on the winning side. Everyone knew that optical instruments had ...

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 ...

Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke: the hugely enlarged flea, the orderly plant units he named "cells," among others. To create them, Hooke ...

THIS was our first look at the realm of the invisible. In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia brought microscopic observations out of his laboratory to a wider world. Hooke believed that ...

The story of scientist Robert Hooke and his ... disturbing portrait of the dark side of Isaac Newton, revealing for the first time how heavily he borrowed from Hooke and how, after fermenting ...

Although a portrait of Robert Hooke was seen at the Royal Society ... objects by the angle they subtend at the observer's eye. Hooke gave much thought and exercised much ingenuity in solving ...

In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked through a primitive microscope ... as well as the things that were not visible to the naked eye right in front of them. FLATOW: And why choose cork?