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Diane talks with the man who's played roles ranging from a Star Wars villain, to an animated lion, to the star of a recent revival of "On Golden Pond."
James Earl Jones, Tony-Award winning actor
Author Lisa Jardine talks about Robert Hooke, a man she describes as a "a founding figure in the European scientific revolution," and explains why he never got the same level of recognition as his contemporaries Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren.
Lisa Jardine, Renaissance historian and author