胡克，罗伯特。1635-1703. 显微摄影：放大镜对微小物体的一些生理描述。伦敦：英国皇家学会詹姆斯·阿利斯特，1667年。

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HOOKE, ROBERT. 1635–1703.:Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667.
Folio (288 x 190 mm). Title with engraved arms of the Royal Society, 38 engraved plates (14 folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked. Some plates trimmed closely, a few short tears along folds, some light browning and staining, mostly marginal.
Provenance: Dan. King (ink note: \”book cost Dan. King second hand October 1st, 1716 pound 1:06:6\”); Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686–1777), Earl Marshall of England (armorial bookplate); \”Belonging to the library bequeathed by the Will of Edward Duke of Norfolk to remain in his Family. Henry Howard Tho\’s Eyre Esq\’rs Executors\” (bookplate); The Royal Meteorological Society, 1793 (deaccession label).

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE OF HOOKE\’S MOST CELEBRATED WORK, with the title dated 1667 instead of 1665. \”THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN THE HISTORY OF MICROSCOPY, CONTAINING THE DISCOVERIES MADE WITH HOOKE\’S NEWLY PERFECTED COMPOUND MICROSCOPE. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations, and this graphic portrayal of a hitherto unseen world had an impact rivaling that of Galilieo\’s Sidereus nuncius … his famous and dramatic portraits of the flea and louse, a frightening eighteen inches long, are hardly less startling today than they must have been to Hooke\’s contemporaries\” (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 187; Garrison-Morton-Norman 262; Heirs of Hippocrates 599; Horblit Science 50; Norman 1092; PMM 147.

胡克，罗伯特。1635–1703. 显微摄影：放大镜对微小物体的一些生理描述。伦敦：英国皇家学会詹姆斯·阿利斯特，1667年。