Micrographia is a historic book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then twenty-eight year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published in September 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society, it was the first scientific best-seller, inspiring a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy. It is also notable for coining the biological term cell. Observations Hooke most famously describes a fly's eye and a plant cell (where he coined that term because plant cells,… (More on Micrographia) |