Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke was the Royal Society's curator of experiments and gave us Hooke's law of elasticity, but his best-known book, Micrographia (1665), is also a work of art: large engraved drawings of a flea, a fly's eye and cork cells, a word he coined. He had trained briefly with a portrait painter. After the Great Fire of London he worked as a surveyor and architect alongside Christopher Wren.