Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his ... Hooke’s illustration appears in “Micrographia” (1665), a volume of fold-out plates accompanied by prose so captivating that it kept the ...

we showcase Micrographia. Published in 1665 and featuring close-ups of fleas and other insects, it is one of the most important science books ever published. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) has been ...

Robert Hooke was a 17th-century scientist who contributed ... Hooke detailed many of his observations in his 1665 book "Micrographia," which was filled with intricate sketches of the tiny world ...

there is only one reference to Hooke's work (to the ” Micrographia”, without mention of Hooke's name).

Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke ... marvels of the microscopic world in Micrographia (1665). The book was an expression of 30-year-old ...

J. Lysaght publishes an interesting account of Robert Hooke's theory of combustion, which he outlined in “Micrographia” (1665) and amplified in his “Lampas” (1677) and “Cutlerian ...

Artist Angela Palmer takes a closer look at the first microscopic images by Robert Hooke.

In 1665, the British polymath Robert Hooke published an unexpectedly popular picture book, “Micrographia.” It featured drawings of household objects and inhabitants that were normally barely ...