Robert Hooke was a 17th-century ... In his teens, after his father died, Hooke enrolled at Westminster School in London. There, he discovered that his talents extended beyond painting; he excelled ...

In the 17th century, microscopes were custom creations, and Robert Hooke’s gave him a view into a world that few people had seen. A scientific polymath, Hooke had worked on the wave theory of ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Hooke ... Newton, he studied the planets with telescopes and snowflakes with microscopes. He was an early proposer of a theory of evolution, discovered ...

Although a portrait of Robert Hooke was ... in Bishopsgate Street, where he lived for the rest of his life. The key to these was, as ever, the instrument. Hooke did much work on the development ...

In Lloyd’s The Bloodless Boy (Melville House, Nov.), scientist Robert Hooke ... He was the most extraordinary man, who was the first to observe microorganisms and coined the term cell. He ...

Some devotees of Robert Hooke have regarded him as Britain's greatest scientific genius of the seventeenth century, the range of his interests and achievements being hard to conceive. He is a ...

Written by Robert ... in 1635, Hooke battled childhood illness and relative poverty to become one of the founding members of the UK national academy of science, the Royal Society. He made ...

Seventeenth-century English scientist Robert Hooke ... The ridges Hooke discovered on peacock feathers do scatter light, but the bright colors generally come from nanostructures he could not ...

ROBERT HOOKE was an Oxford man, for he was a servitor at Christchurch, and an assistant to Boyle there, before he came to London to work for the newly founded Royal Society. Hence the ...