ABSTRACT
If one has more than a scholarly interest in Hooke, that is if one has been touched, if only slightly, by his fate at the hands of the mistress we all serve, then one may find his being in fashion today somewhat poignant. Be that as it may, the result is that we surely know more about Robert Hooke than ever before, despite the fact that the general acknowledgement of his importance in the scientific revolution and especially in the formative years of the Royal Society, the result of a battle first waged by those great antagonists, Gunther and Andrade, is quite recent. And now Hooke is fashionable, of all things! Though still, for most people, 2003 is the 300th anniversary of Pepys’s death, not Hooke’s.
