Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke


 In the late 1600s, Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke had a bitter rivalry. Hooke accused Newton of stealing his ideas on the nature of light and colors. When Hooke died, Newton, who became the president of the Royal Society, allegedly ordered the only known portrait of Hooke to be destroyed, leading to the complete erasure of Hooke's image from history.

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