New portrait to mark Hooke's place in history
Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 12:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Chroniclers of his time called him ‘despicable’, ‘mistrustful’ and ‘jealous’, and a rivalrous Isaac Newton might have had the only surviving portrait of him burnt, but, three centuries on, Robert Hooke is now regarded as one of the great Enlightenment scientists.