TY - BOOK AU - Hooke,Robert TI - Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon AV - QH PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Microscopy -- Early works to 1800 KW - Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works KW - Magnifying glasses -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrographia; Release date is 2005-03-29; Robert Shimmin, Keith Edkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Revised by Richard Tonsing; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Micrographia" by Robert Hooke is a scientific book published in 1665. The first major publication of the Royal Society, it reveals a hidden world through microscopic observation, featuring spectacular illustrations of insects and plants magnified for the first time. Hooke describes fly eyes, coins the term "cell" while examining plant tissue, and contrasts nature's perfection with mankind's flawed creations. This groundbreaking bestseller captured public imagination and established microscopy as a new frontier of scientific discovery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15491 ER -