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    Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically...
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    Micrographia is an acquired disorder characterized by abnormally small, cramped handwriting. It is commonly associated with neurodegenerative disorders...
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    Hooke identified the rotations of Mars and Jupiter. Hooke's 1665 book Micrographia, in which he coined the term cell, encouraged microscopic investigations...
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    depicted in Micrographia The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, which can be found to be described in his book Micrographia. In this book...
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    drops and describe experiments performed. Among these publications was Micrographia of 1665 by Robert Hooke, who later would discover Hooke's Law. His publication...
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    the term cell (from Latin cellula, meaning "small room") in his book Micrographia (1665). 1839: Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden elucidated...
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    Gnat from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, 1665...
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    An engraving of the cells of cork, from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, 1665...
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    early subjects of microscopy, appearing in Robert Hooke's 1667 book, Micrographia. Lice are divided into two groups: sucking lice, which obtain their nourishment...
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    Drawing from Robert Hooke's Micrographia of the compound eye of a grey drone fly...
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    Schröter (1791), extending its previous use with volcanoes. Robert Hooke in Micrographia (1665) proposed two hypotheses for lunar crater formation: one, that...
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    the microscope by the English polymath Robert Hooke. In his 1665 book Micrographia, he stated that far from being spontaneously generated from dirt, they...
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    plants in the United States Diagram of a plume moth from Robert Hooke's Micrographia Leaf-shaped moth (Pergesa acteus) Giant grey moth (Agrius convolvuli)...
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    the oscillations of a pendulum. In 1657, Robert Hooke published his Micrographia, in which he hypothesised that the Moon must have its own gravity. In...
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    efficient optical switches and low-reflectance glass. In his 1665 book Micrographia, Robert Hooke described the "fantastical" colours of the peacock's feathers:...
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    shark. Robert Hooke (1635–1703) included micrographs of fossils in his Micrographia and was among the first to observe fossil forams. His observations on...
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    has been understood in general terms since Robert Hooke's 1665 book Micrographia, where Hooke correctly noted that since the iridescence of a peacock's...
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    life in the form of the fruiting bodies of moulds. In his 1665 book Micrographia, he made drawings of studies, and he coined the term cell. Louis Pasteur...
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    to Micrographia (1665) «I have, by the help of a distended wire, propagated the sound to a very considerable distance in an instant». Micrographia - Extracts...
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    Hooke's drawing of a flea under the microscope in his pioneering book Micrographia published in 1665, poems by Donne and Jonathan Swift, works of music...
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  • Imprimerie de Ian Maire. ISBN 978-0-268-00870-3. Hooke, Robert (1667). Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying...
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    compared the spreading of light to that of waves in water in his 1665 work Micrographia ("Observation IX"). In 1672 Hooke suggested that light's vibrations could...
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    In 1663–1664, the English scientist Robert Hooke was writing his book Micrographia (1666) in which he discussed, among other things, the relation between...
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    A study of an egg of a silkworm from Hooke's Micrographia, 1665...
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    Image of a flea from Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665), a Royal Society work...
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    structures with the lungs. The publication in 1665 of Robert Hooke's Micrographia had a huge impact, largely because of its impressive illustrations. Hooke...
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    on booklice. Robert Hooke referred to a "Land-Crab" in his 1665 work Micrographia. Another reference in the 1780s, when George Adams wrote of "a lobster-insect...
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  • the building blocks of all living organisms as "cells" (published in Micrographia) after looking at a piece of cork and observing a cell-like structure;...
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  • (2008), Science, Evolution, and Creationism. Hooke, Robert (1635–1703). Micrographia, Observation XVIII. See Acid–base reaction. See, for example, Common...
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    fluid. Orpiment is mentioned in the 17th century by Robert Hooke in Micrographia for the manufacture of small shot. Scientists like Richard Adolf Zsigmondy...
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