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Robert Hooke's Micrographia for the Modern Reader
In 1665, the year of the Great Plague and one year before the Great Fire of London, the young scientist Robert Hooke published his Micrographia, an illustrated account of the things he observed through the microscope. Samuel Pepys called it ‘the most ingenious book I ever read in my life’. Hooke describes the edge of a razor, the point of a needle, the cell structure of cork and the six-armed form of the snowflake, as well as a rich assortment of plant and insect life. Professor Matthew Francis,
13:15 to 14:15 Free entry (01970) 632 548
National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
Wed 4 Nov 2015
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