Two of the 1600s’ greatest minds helped build modern science, but their rivalry became a fight over credit, status, and control of the Royal Society. Newton used his power to dominate disputes like ...

Seventeenth-century English polymath Robert Hooke played a pivotal role in developing scientific methodology, according to this enlightening debut history. Henderson, an archives and material culture ...

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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 ...

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LISA JARDINEHooke biographer who led the effort to transcribe his notes LONDON -- The notes of 17th-century researcher Robert Hooke were posted on the Internet yesterday. The move opens an online ...

Includes a digitized facsimile of the 1665 London edition of Hooke's Micrographia from the copy in the Warnock Library, and a commentary by Brian J. Ford. Text is ...