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A new visible world: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia

  • 17 October 2015, 11:30 - 12:30
  • Free
Add to Calendar 10/17/15 11:30 AM 10/17/15 12:30 PM United Kingdom (GMT) A new visible world: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia <p>Explore the weird and wonderful shapes of tiny everyday objects and discover how Hooke's &lt;em&gt;Micrographia&lt;/em&gt; changed the way we understand the world.</p> The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
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Explore the weird and wonderful shapes of tiny everyday objects and discover how Hooke's Micrographia changed the way we understand the world.

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In 1665 Robert Hooke published the first fully-illustrated book of microscopy, amazing his readers with a whole new world of tiny structures. In her talk, historian Dr Felicity Henderson toured the weird and wonderful shapes of tiny everyday objects, from a flea to a printed full-stop, and learn how Hooke changed the way people understood the world. 

This talk was part of The Big Draw - Seeing closer event at the Royal Society on Saturday 17 October 2015.

Hooke's Micrographia
Mould viewed under a microscope, from Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665)’ © The Royal Society