I never knew or heard about any stories about great scientists who are enimies until i managed to find info about it on Robert Hooke's biography on wikipedia.

Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton entertained a considerable mutual dislike for each other. They fell out in 1672 when Hooke criticized Newton's presentation showing that prisms split white light rather than modifying it. Newton expressed fury that Hooke seemed unable to grasp his ground-breaking discovery, and threatened to leave the Royal Society.

Relations between the men grew worse as time progressed. In 1679, Hooke wrote to Newton advocating an inverse square law of gravitation, though he lacked the mathematical ability to formally prove it. When Newton published his Principia Mathematica in 1687, including a proof of an inverse square law, he failed to credit Hooke at all.

The famous Newton quote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants", appeared originally in a letter to Hooke, and Newton presumably intended it as a sarcastic remark directed against Hooke, who had a remarkably short stature.

Haha...for those of you who are not in the science stream, he's the one we learn about in Hooke's law, concerning elasticity. As for Sir Isaac Newton...he's no other then the person who derive
newton's law of gravity, mentioned about the 7 light colors and calculus.

Learning and researching further i found out how technology have changed people. Macro shots of a butterfly can be done by most compact digital cameras these days. But during the 17 th century, these drawings are done using a microscopic glass, and the artist have to painfully draw a dead fly. It's featured in " Micrographia" which was published in 1665.



and here's how Alton Vance did it with a Canon EOS 10D with a 65mm Macro lens and Macro Twin Light MT-24EX. (2 inches from the subject )



Now...back to books.