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 ...
THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635–1703, by Stephen Inwood, MacAdam/Cage, 2003, 475 pages, $28.50 (ISBN 1-931561-56-7) Stephen Inwood's book, "The Forgotten Genius: The ...
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 discovered the cell, established experimentation as crucial to scientific research, and did pioneering work in optics, gravitation, paleontology, architecture, and more. Yet history ...
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Isaac Newton vs Robert Hooke Genius, Ego and a Scientific Feud
The world of science is not immune to personal conflict. This episode shifts focus from political rulers to intellectual ...
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 absence ...
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 ...
Viewers of last Sunday's episode of Cosmos were treated to an empowering, true story: of comets and intellectual brilliance, and learned knowledge conquering blind fear. We learned how one of the ...
This is a book by a busy woman about an inordinately busy man. While writing it Lisa Jardine was also establishing the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, chairing ...
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