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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton's preeminence in the history of science and mathematics is fully deserved. However, his enormous reputation overshadows the importance and work of some of the other founding fathers of ...

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 ...

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s ...

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 ...

In Lloyd’s The Bloodless Boy (Melville House, Nov.), scientist Robert Hooke, England’s Leonardo, investigates gruesome murders in 17th-century London. What gripped you about Hooke? When doing my MA ...

We are pleased to announce that we will be running a trip to The Robert Hooke Museum on the Isle of Wight on Saturday 10th May 2025 The coach will pick-up at Emsworth bus stop opposite the King’s Arms ...

Robert Hooke was a scientist, artist, and nemesis to Isaac Newton. In his spare time, he engaged in one of the most celebrated science art projects. To do so, he was forced to get an ant drunk. Yes, ...