Changing the way we see the world
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Robert Hooke’s best seller “Micrographia” was the first best selling work of popular science, amazing its audience with their first glimpse of a microscopic world. The incredibly detailed etchings of plants, insects and minerals still have the power to inspire awe today.
Reference: Robert Hooke, Micrographia 2nd ed (1667) AQ 094/1687/6
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