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 ...

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, through the ...

Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the ...

Dr. C. H. DESCH delivered a Research and Development Lecture under the auspices of the Royal Institution and the British Science Guild on February 6, taking as his subject “The Microscope and the ...

A REPRESENTATIVE Oxford gathering met in the Divinity School on November 20 to do honour to the memory of Robert Hooke of Christ Church, who was born three hundred years ago. Dr. R. T. Gunther, reader ...