English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703) is known to history more for losing quarrels with better-known scientists than for his achievements. He dared challenge Newton for credit as discoverer of ...

“No creature or nation lives life in chronological order,” historian Robb (France) observes in this idiosyncratic account of his native Britain. Moving backward and forward in Continue reading » ...

Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the ...