THE CELL
CELL THEORY
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Question
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True or False? Nobody knows what Robert Hooke looked like.
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False
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True
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It matched the physical description of Hooke* from contemporary sources: He was known to have gray eyes and natural brown hair that had “an excellent moist curl” and hung down over his forehead.
Detailed explanation-2: -Art historians, however, believe that matching physical descriptions is insufficient to identify the sitter. This blunder was made by historian Lisa Jardine when in 2004 she misidentified a portrait of 17th-century chemist Jan Baptist Van Helmont as being Hooke.
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