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Robert Hooke Micrographia

Science
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Published under the aegis of The Royal Society, the popularity of the book helped further the society's image and mission of being the scientifically progressive organization of London. Micrographia also focused attention on the miniature world, capturing the public's imagination in a radically new way. This impact is illustrated by Samuel Pepys' reaction upon completing the tome: the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life. Hooke also selected several objects of human origin; among these objects were the jagged edge of a honed razor and the point of a needle, seeming blunt under the microscope. [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia (fiscle part-IV)

Some Physiological Descriptions Of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses With Observations And Inquiries Thereupon

History
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Micrographia is a historic book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then thirty-year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia Part 1

Essay
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It Is The Great Prerogative Of Mankind Above Other Creatures, That We Are Not Only Able To _Behold_ [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia Part 2

Essay
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Charcoal, Or A Vegetable Burnt Black, Affords An Object No Less Pleasant Than Instructive, For If [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia Part 1

Education
English
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As In _Geometry_, The Most Natural Way Of Beginning Is From A Mathematical _Point_; So Is The Same [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia Part 2

Education
English
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I Have For Several Years Together, In The Moneths Of _June_, _July_, _August_, And _September_ (When Any Of The Green Leaves Of _Roses_ Begin To Dry And Grow Yellow) Observ'd Many Of Them, Especially The Leaves Of The Old Shrubs Of _Damask Roses_, All Bespecked With Yellow Stains; And The Undersides Just Against Them, To Have Little Yellow Hillocks Of A Gummous Substance, And Several Of Them To Have Small Black Spots In The Midst Of Those Yellow Ones, Which, To The Naked Eye, Appear'd No Bigger Then The Point Of A Pin, Or The Smallest Black Spot Or Tittle Of Ink One Is Able To Make With A Very Sharp Pointed Pen. [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia (Fiscle Part-4)

Biography & Autobiography
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As In _Geometry_, The Most Natural Way Of Beginning Is From A Mathematical _Point_; So Is The Same Method [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia (fiscle Part-11)

Design
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It Is The Great Prerogative Of Mankind Above Other Creatures, That We Are Not Only Able To _Behold_ The Works Of Nature, Or Barely To _Sustein_ Our Lives By Them, But We Have Also The Power Of _Considering_, _Comparing_, _Altering_, _Assisting_, And _Improving_ Them To Various Uses. And As This Is The Peculiar Priviledge Of Humane Nature In General, So Is It Capable Of Being So Far Advanced By The Helps Of Art, And Experience, As To Make Some Men Excel Others In Their Observations, And Deductions, Almost As Much As They Do Beasts. By The Addition Of Such _Artificial Instruments_ And _Methods_, There May Be, In Some Manner, A Reparation Made For The Mischiefs, And Imperfection, Mankind Has Drawn Upon It Self, By Negligence, And Intemperance, And A Wilful And Superstitious Deserting The Prescripts And Rules Of Nature, Whereby Every Man, Both From A Deriv'd Corruption, Innate And Born With Him, And From His Breeding And Converse With Men, Is Very Subject To Slip Into All Sorts Of Errors. [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia (Fiscle Part-4)

Biography & Autobiography
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It Is The Great Prerogative Of Mankind Above Other Creatures, That We Are Not Only Able To _Behold_ The Works Of Nature, Or Barely To _Sustein_ Our Lives By Them, But We Have Also The Power Of _Considering_, _Comparing_, _Altering_, _Assisting_, And _Improving_ Them To Various Uses. And As This Is The Peculiar Priviledge Of Humane Nature In General, So Is It Capable Of Being So Far Advanced By The Helps Of Art, And Experience, As To Make Some Men Excel Others In Their Observations, And Deductions, Almost As Much As They Do Beasts. By The Addition Of Such _Artificial Instruments_ And _Methods_, There May Be, In Some Manner, A Reparation Made For The Mischiefs, And Imperfection, Mankind Has Drawn Upon It Self, By Negligence, And Intemperance, And A Wilful And Superstitious Deserting The Prescripts And Rules Of Nature, Whereby Every Man, Both From A Deriv'd Corruption, Innate And Born With Him, And From His Breeding And Converse With Men, Is Very Subject To Slip Into All Sorts Of Errors. [more]

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Robert Hooke Micrographia (Fiscal Part I) Some Physiological Descriptions Of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses With Obs

Science
English
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Ages 18 and up
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As In _Geometry_, The Most Natural Way Of Beginning Is From A Mathematical _Point_; So Is The Same Method In Observations And _Natural History_ The Most Genuine, Simple, And Instructive. We Must First Endevour To Make _Letters_, And Draw _Single_ Strokes True, Before We Venture To Write Whole _Sentences_, Or To Draw Large _Pictures_. And In _Physical_ Enquiries, We Must Endevour To Follow Nature In The More _Plain_ And _Easie_ Ways She Treads In The Most _Simple_ And _Uncompounded Bodies_, To Trace Her Steps, [more]

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