Extracts from Micrographia
Subtitle: or, some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon
By: by R. Hooke
Series: Alembic Club reprints -- no. 5
Publisher: The Alembic Club; The University of Chicago Press
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Edinburgh; Chicago
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