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 ...
Engraving of a flea; Schem.XXIV. 'Micrographia', published in 1665, is the result of detailed observations by Robert Hooke using the recently invented microscope. The publication was funded by The ...
THIS was our first look at the realm of the invisible. In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia brought microscopic observations out of his laboratory to a wider world. Hooke believed that, through the ...