Representations of Insects in
Robert Hooke's Micrographia"
The exhibition, "The secret workings of nature:
Robert Hooke and early science" marks 350 years since Micrographia was published by the Royal Society in 1665.
Robert Hooke's meticulous illustration of a flea from his book Micrographia foretold a new chapter in natural history, where organisms could be classified according to detailed descriptions of their anatomy.
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Robert Hooke. http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/robert_hooke.htm (Accessed December 2012).
The topic is largely considered in relation to specific intellectual figures, including Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Isaaac Vossius,
Robert Hooke, Pierre Bayle, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Giambattista Vico, Paolo Mattia Doria, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume.
It is really the same point made more than three centuries ago by Sir Isaac Newton, who famously wrote to his rival,
Robert Hooke: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
In the 1797 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dr John Robison claimed that he had uncovered evidence in the papers of the Royal Society that Dr
Robert Hooke had been in communication with Newcomen, and had suggested that he investigate the work of Denis Papin.
Giles Mandelbrote traces books previously owned by
Robert Hooke (and to a lesser extent Stuart Bickerstaff) through Sloane's own library catalogue, Sloane's copies of the Hooke sale catalogue, and evidence in books.
Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) began his career as an apprentice to the painter Sir Peter Lely, but complained that the smell of oil paint gave him headaches and cut the apprenticeship short.
Even Newton admitted that he could see further than his peers because he had "stood on the shoulders of giants" -According to Gratzer (2005), the remark is generally interpreted as a dig at his detested rival, the diminutive
Robert Hooke, rather than a mark of modesty, an attribute wholly alien to Newton's temperament.
His short-list piece, Refractions (
Robert Hooke), is a colourful abstract.