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Micrographia
The contents of the Micrographia
Many of his observations were drawn on impressive copper-plated illustrations for example, the flea, which opens to four times the size of the book.
Hooke described a flea as adorn'd with a curiously polish'd suite of sable Armour, neatly jointed.
In its day Micrographia was a best-seller, and it received praise from Samuel Pepys, who stayed up until two in the morning reading the book.
He then said that it was the cleverest book he had ever read!
Another famous image from the book is Hooke's study of cork under a microscope. Through this, he was the first, though without realising it initially, to discover the structure of plants cells.
He described the material as follows:
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. . I could exceedingly plainly perceive it to be all perforated and porous, much like a Honey-comb, but that the pores of it were not regular. .
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. . these pores, or cells, . . . were indeed the first microscopical pores I ever saw, and perhaps, that w