infocus #59 September 2020 Does Robert Hooke finally have a face?

Readers of the RMS Journal of Microscopy were treated to an intriguing paper published in the June issue, in which Texas A&M University Professor Dr Lawrence Griffing explores the history of a painting, Portrait of a mathematician, attributed to Mary Beale, circa 1680

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.190

“One of the Holy Grails of science history is to find the portrait of Robert Hooke. I’ve been looking, and I think I might’ve found it.”

Dr. Lawrence Griffing

Here, in an article reproduced for infocus, Chris Jarvis explains more.

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