Professor Lorna Gibson discusses Robert Hooke's Micrographia

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In the Harvard University Botany Library, Professor Lorna Gibson looks at Robert Hooke's seminal work, Micrographia, Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses and compares his illustrations of cork, feather, a flea, and a fly's eye with current SEM images.