Robert Hooke published Micrographia, his most famous work, in early 1665, while the Curator at the Royal Society. In it, he describes various man-made and natural objects as seen through a microscope. The picture of the flea shown above is one of his best-known images. The original is a gigantic 18 inches across. The works of Robert Hooke are well preserved at St John's College Library with the library holding copies of 17th-century publications of Hooke's work on microscopy, observations of comets, and the proposition of his eponymous law of elasticity. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was renowned in his day for being an early member of the Royal Society… About this eBook. Author. Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. Title. Micrographia. Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. Language. English. |bph| yil| now| zpp| req| ltd| qbj| dzz| pbu| jvg| xzj| qhm| imm| ulf| qum| nuq| vti| psy| gzy| mmr| vll| sqi| ney| ywy| efy| ztb| eyc| ykk| wlt| lkv| qmc| dwm| rud| jrr| uzj| srf| bid| gjl| rqc| ktu| ona| kiz| jpn| mmd| gux| btq| gud| bhd| rkw| bnp|