Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...

Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke: the hugely enlarged flea, the orderly plant units he named "cells," among others. To create them, Hooke ...

The first microscopes were a lot better than they are usually given credit for. That's the claim of microscopist Brian Ford, a specialist in the history and development of these instruments based at ...

THIS was our first look at the realm of the invisible. In 1665, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia brought microscopic observations out of his laboratory to a wider world. Hooke believed that, through the ...

LONDON. Royal Microscopical Society, October 15.—R. S. Clay and W. J. Court: The development of the Hooke microscope. After referring to the description of Hooke's original instrument in his justly ...

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When Robert Hooke sought to depict the anatomy of an ant, he put one under a microscope and started to sketch. The ant did not wait for him to finish. Hooke captured another and glued down its feet, ...