Robert Hooke’s Micrographia of 1665 and 1667

Robert Hooke's Micrographia of 1665 and 1667.

Peter Harris of Reading University Traces the Science of Microscopy Back to 1665, and Robert Hooke’s Book Entitled “micrographia, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies”

range of techniques Hooke could not possibly have imagined. Some of these techniques, like transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, can resolve individual atoms, while others, like environmental scanning electron microscopy, can image biological specimens at high resolution in something close to their natural state. As well as providing incredibly detailed images, modern mi...

Micrographia

In three more years Micrographia will celebrate its 300th birthday, and while a desire for neatness might have urged Dover to postpone the publication of this facsimile edition until the tricentennial, our sheer, informal delight in the book should cause us to rejoice at these few extra years of reading pleasure. To devote to Micrographia a standard review would be similar to an argument as to ...

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The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, fellows of the Royal Society.

The existence of microscopic organisms was discovered during the period 1665-83 by two Fellows of The Royal Society, Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. In Micrographia (1665), Hooke presented the first published depiction of a microganism, the microfungus Mucor. Later, Leeuwenhoek observed and described microscopic protozoa and bacteria. These important revelations were made possible by t...