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Wonderfully detailed drawings from Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke, the first book devoted entirely to the microscopic world. Hooke's book was an immediate best seller, with Samuel Pepys describing it as "the most ingenious book I have ever read in my life".

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2022-11-14

Our Pybus Collecion includes a copy of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in 1665. It was one of the first popular science books, and featured drawings of the microscopic world not seen before.

Check out our June 2010 blog post about the work here: https://t.co/CutptbGA8D

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2022-06-10

This image is of a louse taken from Robert Hooke's Micrographia. What looks like a stick being held by the louse is actually a human hair.

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2022-02-25

Robert Hooke's book Micrographia was first published in 1664, containing drawings of the creatures he was able to observe through microscopes. It must have given people quite a shock!

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2021-10-16

Robert "Micrographia" (1665) was the first work to depict microscopic specimens, and includes his famous illustration of a flea. Hooke praised the "beauty" of this creature, with its "suit of sable Armour" and "sharp pinns...like Porcupine’s Quills." 🦔🔬 ⁣#ArchivesBugs

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2021-05-08

This month's is all about which can be found in all their glory in Robert Hooke's 1665 Micrographia - the first important work on microscopy. The detailed illustrations give beauty to the smallest of creatures under his own design microscope

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2021-05-07

At , “Seeing for Yourself” will look at how artists/scientists have made hidden worlds visible from the 1500s on. The show will feature items ranging from Robert Hooke's “Micrographia,” featuring etchings of minute objects, to depictions of viruses like COVID-19.

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2021-04-17

Anyway, lots more could be said about Hooke (he discovered plant cells and coined the term "cell" itself!) but he's so cool I snuck a Micrographia illustration of a louse into my comic series Hocus Pocus: https://t.co/SvhVpv3Xap

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2021-04-08

Micrographia was groundbreaking for Hooke's breathaking etchings of the microscopic world, the first time anyone would have seen such images. There were far too many for me to include, but I wanted to show a snapshot of as wide a range as possible - plant, animal and mineral.

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2021-04-08

- 1 of my art/science inspirations & heroes. The groundbreaking microscopy studies in his book, “Micrographia” 1665 brought a brave new world 2 the masses. He sketched bee stings, ants, flies & most famously, a flea. My homage to Hooke’s flea. https://t.co/ofeFqflx2E

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2020-12-31

Back to Issue and on a cheerier note, here is my favourite panel from the Pepper's Ghost story. I was chortling as I drew it.

The horrific creature being projected is a louse drawn from Robert Hooke's 1665 landmark illustrated tome "Micrographia".

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2020-11-15

Robert Hooke is another artist (and scientist) I love. He published the first ever sketches whilst looking through a microscope in his ground breaking book “Micrographia” 1665. It opened a whole new micro world. Folks were able 2 see fleas,flies & ants in all of their tiny wonder

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2020-10-31

Two new to start your week off!

If the flea from Robert Hooke's Micrographia doesn't tickle your fancy, then devour the tasty treats of chef Charles Francatelli.

Puzzle away: https://t.co/Wk9UZlgGxP

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2020-10-26

These spiders come from Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke. Check it out on our digital collections and zoom in really close!
https://t.co/mKv3dGkMxh

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2020-10-21

In 1665 Robert Hooke published his most famous work Micrographia (”Small Drawings”). In it he included his studies and illustrations of the crystal structure of snowflakes and first used the word cell to name the microscopic honeycomb cavities in cork.5/

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2020-09-11

Robert Hooke, FRS (1635-1703), co-inventor of the watch balance spring, architect, but remembered best for his Micrographia (1665) - you'll have seen his Flea.
Worked with Boyle, Newton et al.

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2020-03-08

Isaac Newton, as President of the Royal Society, did much to obscure Robert Hooke–who died 1703–reputedly destroying the only known portrait of the man. A natural philosopher, architect & polymath, Hooke was "…an indefatigable Genius even almost to the last".

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2020-03-03

Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries thereupon.
https://t.co/dKh5IqgykR

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2019-08-16

Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665), first book on microscopy, showed organic and inorganic material in minute detail. More on Hooke here: https://t.co/tDQM0rLAr8

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2018-03-28

Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (author of 'Micrographia') died in 1703.

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2018-03-04