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.

Artist Angela Palmer takes a closer look at Robert Hooke's Micrographia, the first detailed images of microscopic objects including the flea and the head of a fly.

Hooke, Robert 1635-1703 Ford, Brian J Warnock Library Octavo Corporation Notes Title from disc label. Summary Includes a digitized facsimile of the 1665 London edition of Hooke's Micrographia from the ...

Robert Hooke, Micrographia, 1665/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703).

Micrographia (1665) contains detailed images of the lunar surface, observations which led to experiments in which Hooke attempted to explain how the craters could have been formed.

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 ...

Robert Hooke was born in England in 1635. When he was 13 years old, Hooke joined Westminster School, London. He studied mathematics and mechanics. In 1653, aged 18, he enrolled at the University ...

Art That Made Us, Series 1, To Kill a King Artist Angela Palmer takes a closer look at the first microscopic images by Robert Hooke.