Robert Hooke
April 2019
June 2010
Mistaken identities
Nothing is more exciting to a biographer than the 'discovery' of a 'missing' portrait of their subject. But all too often, in their eagerness for new material, even scholars are duped, as Lisa Jardine discovered to her cost. Fortunately, scientific methods are making it easier to spot the fakes, as the National Gallery's new exhibition proves
June 2007
April 2006
February 2006
Keeping a watch on Hooke and Huygens
Letters: Although the discovery of Robert Hooke's minutes (Eureka!, February 9) is extremely interesting and important, the documents do not, as quoted in your article, establish with any certainty that Hooke beat Huygens to the invention of a spring-regulated watch.