Newton
by Peter Ackroyd | 
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
by Lisa Jardine | 
Wizard
by Marc J. Seifer | 
Robert Oppenheimer
by Ray Monk | 
The Rockefellers
by Peter Collier |
Morgan
by Jean Strouse | 
The Most Famous Man in America
by Debby Applegate | 
Isaac Newton
by James Gleick |
Mrs. Jordan's Profession
by Claire Tomalin |
Carl Sagan
by Keay Davidson |
Who Was Albert Einstein?
by Jess Brallier | 
Five Sisters
by James Fox | 
Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Joan D. Hedrick |
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
by Diana Souhami | 
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
by Susan Nagel |
Robert Hooke was one of the most inventive, versatile and prolific scientists of the late 17th century, but for 300 years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries: his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. If he is remembered now, it is as the author of a law of elasticity or as a misanthrope who accused Newton of stealing his ideas on gravity.