The account, written by Périer, reads:"The weather was chancy last Saturday... around five o'clock that morning...the Puy-de-Dôme was visible...so I decided to give it a try.
Hooke je leta 1665 objavil knjigo z naslovom "Micrographia", ki je vsebovala številna opazovanja z mikroskopom in daljnogledom in veliko izvirnih raziskav iz biologije.