Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9435
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Moss
Date
1665
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural Philosopher
Object type
Library reference
RCN 45230
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 306mm
width (print): 177mm
width (print): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Microscopic study of the reproductive system of moss, showing the seed case at different stages of fertilisation: Fig. D-E. seed case hooded by leaves [centre]; Fig. A-B. the operculum [right as viewed], and; Fig. C&F. the peristome [left].
Inscribed above: ‘Schem 13’
Written in the associated text: ‘This Plant, when young and springing up, does much resemble a Houseleek, having thick leaves, almost like that and seems to be somewhat of kin to it in other particulars; also from the top of the leaves, there shoots out a small white and transparent hair or thorn’
Plate 13 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 13’
Written in the associated text: ‘This Plant, when young and springing up, does much resemble a Houseleek, having thick leaves, almost like that and seems to be somewhat of kin to it in other particulars; also from the top of the leaves, there shoots out a small white and transparent hair or thorn’
Plate 13 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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