Scientific Illustration

compendium-of-beasts:

Robert Hooke’s drawing of a grey dronefly from Micrographia, 1665

compendium-of-beasts:

Robert Hooke’s diagram of a louse from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : with observations and inquiries thereupon, 1665

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Happy Birthday Robert Hooke (28 July 1635 – 3 March 1703)

geneseelibby:

Robert Hooke’s drawing of a flea in his Micrographia published in 1665.

yochanah:

Robert Hooke. Micrographia.

This is the first representation of a limited area on the Moon’s surface: the crater known as Hipparchus, which Hooke portrayed in an admirably realistic manner, pointing up the limits of earlier cartography.

(via fuckyeahcartography)

compendium-of-beasts:

Robert Hooke, 1635-1703. Micrographia restaurata: or, The Copper-plates of Dr. Hooke’s Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscop. 1745

via University of Delaware