Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...
Includes a digitized facsimile of the 1665 London edition of Hooke's Micrographia from the copy in the Warnock Library, and a commentary by Brian J. Ford. Text is ...
In 1665 robert hooke, a British polymath, published “Micrographia”, a book in which he described using what was then still a relatively new instrument—the microscope—to investigate the tiniest ...
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Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke: the hugely enlarged flea, the orderly plant units he named "cells," among others. To create them, Hooke ...
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