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(Not just a Souls weapon, but a trick weapon straight out of Bloodborne? Hell yeah)

It may or not be the end, but you know one thing: You're not going down without a fight.

Newton, feigning generosity, offers you a head start in his taunting sneer, and you use the opportunity to quickly put some distance between him and yourself. As you make your way through the Forgotten Repository, you quickly scan the shelves and cabinets for anything that could serve as a weapon.

Among the priceless artifacts and inventions left to decay under the apathetic watch of the tyrant before you, you find—miraculously still in pristine condition—Hooke's one-of-a-kind whale bone crossbow. A serendipitous encounter that will certainly level the playing field, if not give you an edge.

As you load the weapon, you realize that the fight for your own survival has evolved into a battle to defend the honor of the First Curator.

The Royal Society mace is just a Dark Souls weapon

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The Royal Society mace is just a Dark Souls weapon

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Even Malpighi agrees it's an unflattering depiction

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THE STORY OF THE MICROSCOPE

1929, Grolier Society

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Another one for the "misattributed to Jan Baptist van Helmont" pile

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Of course she was Dutch

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When you and your buddy's doppelgängers just casually show up to join you at the first Royal Society meeting

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"Monk's Cell" is a Mandela Effect?

Not long ago, I was browsing a post from the now-abandoned Hooke's London blog when I came across this interesting exchange:

Wait... what?

But seriously... I've been poring over Micrographia (if you'll excuse the pun) and, while Hooke makes frequent use of the word 'cell' to describe what he interchangeably refers to as 'pores' or 'boxes', Henderson is indeed correct—there are no monastic references to be found.

This, of course, doesn't preclude the possibility that Hooke coined the term, or imply that Micrographia wasn't where it first originated in the context of microbiology.

Since the word 'cell' simply means 'small room' in Latin, the most reasonable explanation is that someone, at some point, made the assumption that Hooke had a specific variety of 'small room' in mind when he created the neologism.

The legend probably survived because it sounded like a cutesy little factoid that no one bothered to fact check.

Still, this is about as shocking as the time when Rob Iliffe casually dropped in a podcast that the famous "great ocean of truth" quote attributed to Newton was completely apocryphal.

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Speaking of malodorous...

Apparently Gresham College stank to high heaven even before Hooke moved in. In 1658, to be exact, when "at which Time the College was garrisoned by Rebels, and the Professors driven out."

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I just can't get used to that medial 's'.

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When you fail to secure a patent for your invention AND someone starts a priority dispute over it

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Update: We can now officially add "stimky" to the proverbial bingo card of anti-Hooke propaganda.

An unfair criticism, considering we all know the butter was to blame.

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I can't tell if this article was written by AI, a very lazy journalist, or if I've accidentally stumbled upon an alternate universe in which Hooke died a much more honorable death.

My only question is: Who won the duel? Are they implying it was Huygens (who died in 1695) or Newton?

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NEWTON: You, sir, are an adulterer—

HOOKE: Correct.

NEWTON: a chronic masturbator—

HOOKE: Go on.

NEWTON: and an incestuous fornicator.

HOOKE: Guilty as charged on all accounts, sir! However... NEWTON: However...? HOOKE: At least you can't accuse me of being a sodomizer.

NEWTON: ...

NEWTON: What are you implying, you little shit?

Not Gay™️ 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Not Gay™️ 2: Electric Boogaloo