Micrographia, written by scientist Robert Hooke in 1665, was the first major book to examine the world through the eye of a microscope.
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Robert Hooke, 1635-1703 worked at the forefront of physics, astronomy, microscopy, physiology and geology and published the first fully illustrated scientific textbook, Micrographia.
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Hooke himself was a talented illustrator, evidenced by his impressive copper-plated illustrations of a flea, which opens to four times the size of a page in Micrographia.
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