A great book written and illustrated by English polymath Robert Hooke, Micrographia appeared in bookshops in January 1665. The advance copy of this book, which details Hooke’s exploration into ...

As part of our Bodleian Treasures series, 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.

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 ...

Coming from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, a collection of illustrations he drew in 1665 that currently resides in the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this drawing is a work of art.

Pliny the Elder : Historia naturalis / Lisa Di Tommaso -- Jacob Meydenbach : Ortus sanitatis / Judith Magee -- Basilius Besler : Hortus eystettensis / Andrea Hart -- John Gerard : The herball or ...