Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.6238
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Frozen matter
Date
1665
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural Philosopher
Object type
Image reference
Library reference
RCN 45230
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 300mm
width (print): 180mm
width (print): 180mm
Subject
Description
Microscopic study of a number of frozen materials, including Fig. 1. frozen urine; Fig. 2/3. snowflakes, and; Fig. 4/5/6 flakes of ice.
Inscribed above: ‘Schem: VIII’
Written in the associated text: ‘I have very often in a Morning, when there has been a great hoar-frost, with an indifferently magnifying microscope, observ’d the small stirie, or Crystalline beard, which then usually covers the face of most bodies that lie open to the cold air, and found them to be generally Hexangular prismatical bodies’
Plate 8 from Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon (1665), the first fully-illustrated book on the topic of microscopy. In the preface Hooke asserts that he had discovered ‘a new visible World’.
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) British natural philosopher was a founding member of the Royal Society, elected in 1663. Before his career with the Royal Society, Hooke had been apprenticed to painter Peter Lely (1618-1680), where he learned to draw and paint. Though he did not engrave the images in Micrographia himself they were engraved after his illustrations.
Inscribed above: ‘Schem: VIII’
Written in the associated text: ‘I have very often in a Morning, when there has been a great hoar-frost, with an indifferently magnifying microscope, observ’d the small stirie, or Crystalline beard, which then usually covers the face of most bodies that lie open to the cold air, and found them to be generally Hexangular prismatical bodies’
Plate 8 from Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon (1665), the first fully-illustrated book on the topic of microscopy. In the preface Hooke asserts that he had discovered ‘a new visible World’.
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) British natural philosopher was a founding member of the Royal Society, elected in 1663. Before his career with the Royal Society, Hooke had been apprenticed to painter Peter Lely (1618-1680), where he learned to draw and paint. Though he did not engrave the images in Micrographia himself they were engraved after his illustrations.
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