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"Micrographia" from Robert Hooke. English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635-1703).

Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. Published in 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society, this work became the first scientific bestseller inspiring a wide public interest in the...



s in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write...






This is a facsimile in full color of the first printing of the famous book by Robert Hooke, in 1665, which unrevealed to the world the existence of another one, much smaller but as rich as the former can be. Also, it brought to our knowledge for the first time that all living...