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Talk:Robert Hooke

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Soo... do we or do we not have an image of his likeness?--Tiberius Gracchus.jpg. 03:10, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it's right there. Тytalk 03:12, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Cosmos[edit]

Did anyone else see the Cosmos episode (with Neil deGrasse Tyson) that portrayed Hooke as a mediocre scientist that wrongly slandered Isaac Newton by claiming Newton stole his research, but in reality Hooke jut wanted the credit for Newton's ideas and was upset Newton had made these discoveries before him? Is there any validity to this claim or is it all bullshit? Regardless, how he was presented in Cosmos should be mentioned since that's the only time a lot of people were introduced to who Hooke was as a scientist. ClothCoat (talk) 01:31, 10 April 2014 (UTC)