Views of the Pleiades, moon and Riccilus Robert Hooke
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Views of the Pleiades, moon and Riccilus
Telescopic study of part of the surface of the moon [top left as viewed], and the Pleiades star cluster. Schem XXXVIII 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’.
Original: copperplate engraving. 1665
- Image reference: RS-9453
- The Royal Society
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