15. From 'Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon' by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1665.

Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke ... characterizes science to this day. Micrographia was the second publication of the young Royal Society, ...

Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, By Robert hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1665. Engraving is ...

Robert Hooke’s book Micrographia of 1665 included this fold-out engraving of Pulex, the flea, portrayed in intimate detail. Scholars have concluded that Hooke supervised the process personally, and ...

All inspired by the work of renowned scientist Robert Hooke who in 1665 published a book called Micrographia, full of drawings of creatures and plants seen through his microscope. The image of a ...

Since the seventeenth century we have been intrigued by the size of living things. That was when Robert Hooke’s illustrated book Micrographia (1665) first allowed the general public to have visual ...