Micrographia. Robert Hooke

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Table of Contents

       Physiological Descriptions

       MINUTE BODIES

       MAGNIFYING GLASSES

       OBSERVATIONS and INQUIRIES thereupon.

       TO THE

       KING.

       ROBERT HOOKE.

       TO THE

       ROYAL SOCIETY.

       ROBERT HOOKE.

       THE

       PREFACE.

       MICROGRAPHIA,

       Physiological Descriptions

       MINUTE BODIES,

       MAGNIFYING GLASSES;

       OBSERVATIONS and INQUIRIES thereupon.

       Observ. I . Of the Point of a sharp small Needle.

       Observ. II . Of the Edge of a Razor.

       Observ. III . Of fine Lawn, or Linnen Cloth.

       Observ. IV . Of fine waled Silk, or Taffety.

       Observ. V . Of watered Silks, or Stuffs.

       Observ. VI . Of Small Glass Canes.

       To make small shot of different sizes; Communicated by his Highness P.R.

       Observ. VII . Of some Phænomena of Glass drops.

       Observ. VIII . Of the fiery Sparks struck from a Flint or Steel.

       Observ. IX . Of the Colours observable in Muscovy Glass, and other thin Bodies .

       Observ. X . Of Metalline , and other real Colours.

       Observ. XI . Of Figures observ'd in small Sand.

       Observ. XII . Of Gravel in Urine.

       Observ. XIII . Of the small Diamants , or Sparks in Flints .

       Observ. XIV . Of several kindes of frozen Figures .

       I.

       Several Observables in the six-branched Figures form'd on the surface of Urine by freezing.

       II

       Observables in figur'd Snow .

       III.

       Several kinds of Figures in Water frozen.

       Observ. XV . Of Kettering-stone , and of the pores of Inanimate bodies.

       Observ. XVI . Of Charcoal , or burnt Vegetables .

       Observ. XVII . Of Petrify'd wood , and other Petrify'd bodies .

       Observ. XVIII . Of the Schematisme or Texture of Cork , and of the Cells and Pores of some other such frothy Bodies.

       Observations on the Humble and Sensible Plants in M Chiffin's Garden in Saint James 's Park, made August the 9 th, 1661 . Present, the Lord Brouncker , Sr. Robert Moray , Dr. Wilkins , Mr. Evelin , Dr. Henshaw , and Dr. Clark .

       Observ. XIX . Of a Plant growing in the blighted or yellow specks of Damask-rose-leaves , Bramble-leaves , and some other kind of leaves.

       Observ. XX . Of blue Mould , and of the first Principles of Vegetation arising from Putrefaction .

       Observ. XXI . Of Moss , and several other small-vegetative Substances.

       Observ.