Robert Hooke: The Genius Newton Tried To Erase From History

Newton, Einstein, Hawking, Curie. Names like these immediately conjure images of towering geniuses who changed the world in ways that we today can scarcely comprehend, since so much of our modern understanding of science is based on their work and their discoveries.

But outside scientific circles, one man has largely been ignored by history, despite being adept at a great many disciplines and at the forefront of many scientific, cultural and historical events. That man is, of course, Robert Hooke, a man known as the English Leonardo da Vinci.