Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon
Robert Hooke's Micrographia, printed in London in 1665, is an early illustrated record of microscope observations made for the Royal Society's natural philosophers and curious readers. The plate shows magnified insects and a mite drawn in fine engraved hatching with numbered figures, a model for precise scientific diagramming and tonal shading.
