The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

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 ...

However, chapters covering applications and those dealing with microscope technology seem to be about evenly divided between the two volumes. Many of the chapters covering applications simply ...

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 ...

Robert Hooke studied the uniaxial force required to extend springs and long straight wires and found it to be proportional to the extension of the device under test. He stated his observation as "Ut ...

All inspired by the work of renowned scientist Robert Hooke who in 1665 published a book called Micrographia, full of drawings of creatures and plants seen through his microscope. The image of a ...

With the invention of the microscope at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it became possible to take a first glimpse at the previously invisible world of microscopic life. A bewildering ...

Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous areas of science, including some of the first studies of living things using microscopes. Hooke was a major player in the newly-founded Royal ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and ...