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Robert Hooke (1635-1703), inventor and wide-ranging researcher, was curator of experiments of the Royal Society, professor of geometry at Gresham College, and Surveyor of the City of London after the Fire of 1666. He is best known for his accomplishments in physics and mechanics, but his Micrographia is important for its observations through a microscope of stones, plants including fungi, and insects, and its striking illustrations.
Robert Hooke.
Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Description of Minute
Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses ...
London: Printed for John Martyn, 1667.
(double page spread:12x16 inches)
Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library
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 Mold on a book cover and blight on a rose leaf. Plate XII. |
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 Porous limestone from near Kettering in Northamptonshire. Plate IX. |
 Surfaces of seaweed and rosemary leaves. Plate XIV. |
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Last updated: 5/15/00 by knox@jhu.edu |
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