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Micrographia

door Robert Hooke · 63 delen · about 12 hours 28 minutes leestijd

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Robert Hooke keek door een microscoop toen microscopen nog gloednieuw waren, en hij zag een verborgen wereld. Een vlo leek een monster in harnas. Een stuk kurk zat vol kleine dozen, en hij noemde ze cellen, een woord dat wetenschappers nog steeds gebruiken. Hij maakte enorme, prachtige tekeningen van alles wat hij zag en zette ze in dit boek. Het was de eerste keer dat de meeste mensen de wereld van het allerkleinste ooit zagen.

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To the King1 min To the Royal Society1 min Preface66 min Chapter I: Of the Point of a sharp small Needle8 min Chapter II: Of the Edge of a Razor3 min Chapter III: Of fine Lawn, or Linnen Cloth4 min Chapter IV: Of fine waled Silk, or Taffety3 min Chapter V: Of watered Silks, or Stuffs7 min Chapter VI: Of Small Glass Canes65 min Chapter VII: Of some Phænomena of Glass drops34 min Chapter VIII: Of the fiery Sparks struck from a Flint or Steel9 min Chapter IX: Of the Colours observable in Muscovy-Glass, and other thin Bodies57 min Chapter X: Of Metalline, and other real Colours34 min Chapter XI: Of Figures observ’d in small Sand4 min Chapter XII: Of Gravel in Urine3 min Chapter XIII: Of the small Diamants, or Sparks in Flints16 min Chapter XIV: Of several kindes of frozen Figures15 min Chapter XV: Of Kettering-stone, and of the pores of Inanimate bodies18 min Chapter XVI: Of Charcoal, or burnt Vegetables18 min Chapter XVII: Of Petrify’d wood, and other Petrify’d bodies16 min Chapter XVIII: Of the Schematisme or Texture of Cork, and of the Cells and Pores of some other such frothy Bodies20 min Chapter XIX: Of a Plant growing in the blighted or yellow specks of Damask-rose-leaves, Bramble-leaves, and some other kind of leaves12 min Chapter XX: Of blue Mould, and of the first Principles of Vegetation arising from Putrefaction16 min Chapter XXI: Of Moss, and several other small vegetative Substances13 min Chapter XXII: Of common Sponges, and several other Spongie fibrous bodies13 min Chapter XXIII: Of the curious texture of Sea-weeds3 min Chapter XXIV: Of the surfaces of Rosemary, and other leaves3 min Chapter XXV: Of the stinging points and juice of Nettles, and some other venomous Plants10 min Chapter XXVI: Of Cowage, and the itching operation of some bodies4 min Chapter XXVII: Of the Beard of a wilde Oat, and the use that may be made of it for exhibiting always to the Eye the temperature of the Air, as to driness and moisture15 min Chapter XXVIII: Of the Seeds of Venus looking-glass, or Corn Violet2 min Chapter XXIX: Of the Seeds of Tyme4 min Chapter XXX: Of the Seeds of Poppy3 min Chapter XXXI: Of Purslane-seed2 min Chapter XXXII: Of the Figure of several sorts of Hair, and of the texture of the skin16 min Chapter XXXIII: Of the Scales of a Soal, and other Fishes3 min Chapter XXXIV: Of the Sting of a Bee4 min Chapter XXXV: Of the contexture and shape of the particles of Feathers8 min Chapter XXXVI: Of Peacocks, Ducks, and other Feathers of changeable colours5 min Chapter XXXVII: Of the Feet of Flies, and several other Insects7 min Chapter XXXVIII: Of the Structure and motion of the Wings of Flies8 min Chapter XXXIX: Of the Eyes and Head of a Grey drone-Fly, and of several other creatures17 min Chapter XL: Of the Teeth of a Snail2 min Chapter XLI: Of the Eggs of Silk-worms, and other Insects3 min Chapter XLII: Of a blue Fly8 min Chapter XLIII: Of the Water Insect or Gnat22 min Chapter XLIV: Of the tufted or Brush-horn’d Gnat5 min Chapter XLV: Of the great Belly’d Gnat or female Gnat2 min Chapter XLVI: Of the white featherwing’d Moth or Tinea Argentea7 min Chapter XLVII: Of the Shepherd Spider, or long-legg’d Spider5 min Chapter XLVIII: Of the hunting Spider, and several other sorts of Spiders6 min Chapter XLIX: Of an Ant or Pismire6 min Chapter L: Of the wandring Mite6 min Chapter LI: Of the Crab-like Insect3 min Chapter LII: Of the small Silver-colour’d Book-worm5 min Chapter LIII: Of a Flea2 min Chapter LIV: Of a Louse7 min Chapter LV: Of Mites4 min Chapter LVI: Of a small Creature hatch’d on a Vine4 min Chapter LVII: Of the Eels in Vinegar3 min Chapter LVIII: Of a new Property in the Air, and several other transparent Mediums nam’d Inflection, whereby very many considerable Phænomena are attempted to be solv’d, and divers other uses are hinted62 min Chapter LIX: Of multitudes of small Stars discoverable by the Telescope3 min Chapter LX: Of the Moon12 min