A Spurious Portrait of Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
@article{Montagu1941ASP,
title={A Spurious Portrait of Robert Hooke (1635-1703)},
author={M. F. Ashley Montagu},
journal={Isis},
year={1941},
volume={33},
pages={15 - 17}
}IN the issue of Time for 3 July 1939, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 39, there was published a portrait alleged to be of the "Scientist Hooke." The portrait was credited to "Historical Pictures." Since I was under the impression that no portrait of HOOKE was known to be in existence, and since, furthermore, my own conception of HOOKE'S appearance, based upon various descriptions which I had formerly read, did not tally with the features exhibited by the individual represented in the portrait to be HOOKE, I…