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‘Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy’ Review: The Microscope Man

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...
The Scientist

The Hooke Microscope

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 ...
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Microscope from Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses.

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This Exhibition Shows How Miniaturization Maximized Human Potential Long Before The Microchip

When Robert Hooke sought to depict the anatomy of an ant, he put one under a microscope and started to sketch. The ant did not wait for him to finish. Hooke captured another and glued down its feet, ...