Micrographia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about Micrographia.

Micrographia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 539 pages of information about Micrographia.

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By the Council of the Royal society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge.

Ordered, That the Book written by Robert Hooke, M.A.  Fellow of this Society, Entituled, Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries thereupon, Be printed by John Martyn, and James Allestry, Printers to the said Society.

Novem. 23. 1664.

Brouncker.  P.R.S.

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MICROGRAPHIA: 

OR SOME

Physiological Descriptions

OF

MINUTE BODIES

MADE BY

MAGNIFYING GLASSES

WITH

Observations and inquiries thereupon.

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By R. Hooke, Fellow of the Royal society.

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  Non possis oculo quantum contendere Linceus,
  Non tamen idcirco contemnas Lippus inungi.
Horat.  Ep. lib. 1.

[Illustration]

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London, Printed by Jo.  Martyn, and Ja.  Allestry, Printers to the Royal society, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Bell in S. Paul’s Church-yard.  M DC LX V.

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TO THE

King.

Sir,

I Do here most humbly lay this small Present at Your Majesties Royal feet.  And though it comes accompany’d with two disadvantages, the meanness of the Author, and of the Subject; yet in both I am incouraged by the greatness of your Mercy and your Knowledge.  By the one I am taught, that you can forgive the most presumptuous Offendors:  And by the other, that you will not esteem the least work of Nature, or Art, unworthy your Observation

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