In the 17th century, microscopes were custom creations, and Robert Hooke’s ... In 1665, Hooke published a book, Micrographia, full of drawings depicting the tiny world he saw under his microscope.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction ... interactions of celestial bodies sent Isaac Newton back to the drawing board. In Hooke’s view, a scientist, equipped with good ...

The history artist Rita Greer says, "Robert Hooke, brilliant, ingenious seventeenth century scientist was brushed under the carpet of history by Sir Isaac Newton and his cronies. When he had his ...

In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia brought microscopic ... seeds), and a louse clinging to a human hair (below). Before drawing the head of a fly (top), Hooke first detached it so he could ...

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 ...

In the early ’90s, Bowdoin commissioned artist Robert Hooke ’64 to create small bronze polar bears that could be given as gifts to retiring presidents and as thank-yous to donors and others. The ...

1628) and Robert Hooke (b. 1635) as the first to put the ... especially the bee. The beautiful drawings of Stelluti's Melissographia present the first microanatomical details of the bee, and ...