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 ...

In the early 1660s, Hooke began a series of studies with microscopes. Unlike Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's inventions, these were compound microscopes. Two finely ground glass lenses were placed on two ...

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, ...

LONDON. Royal Microscopical Society, October 15.—R. S. Clay and W. J. Court: The development of the Hooke microscope. After referring to the description of Hooke's original instrument in his justly ...

In 1665,the British polymath Robert Hooke published an unexpectedly popular picture book, “Micrographia.” It featured drawings of household objects and inhabitants that were normally barely ...

In 1665 robert hooke, a British polymath, published “Micrographia”, a book in which he described using what was then still a relatively new instrument—the microscope—to investigate the tiniest ...