Extracts from Micrographia
Subtitle: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon.
By: By R. Hooke. (1665)
Edition: [Re-issue ed.]
Series: Alembic Club reprints, no. 5; Alembic club reprints -- no. 5.
Publisher: The Alembic Club
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Combustion, Theory of.; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon.
Notes: "Hooke's 'Micrographia' is a remarkable book in several respects, but in none more strikingly so than on account of the explanation which it contains of its author's clear views respecting the theory of combustion"-Editor's pref.