The Mystery of the Missing Portrait of Robert Hooke | The Conversation

“If this is indeed Hooke, the portrait provides an iconic image. So where has it been for more than 300 years? I turned to the rumor that Newton could have been involved in the portrait’s disappearance. The two scientists did have a quarrelsome history.”

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'Hooke and Pepys'. Robert Hooke's sensational book 'Micrographia' was published in 1665. He made drawings which were turned into engravings of what he could see down a microscope he had made himself. Samuel Pepys bought a copy and said it was the most ingenious book he had ever read in his life. The most famous image from the book is probably Hooke's drawing of the flea. Oil on board by Rita Greer 2005. FAL 1.3 Sourced via Wikipedia Commons