Category: Science

[Scans of Robert Hooke’s notebooks now available online](http://darwin.gruts.com/weblog/archive/2007/10/19a/). I think [Robert Hooke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke) is fascinating. A brilliant mind who would be one of the most revered scientists ever if he hadn’t had the misfortune to live in the same time and place as a more brilliant scientist in Isaac Newton. (And then compounded that misfortune by…

Good Riddance! So: next question – is Mercury a planet?