DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Micrographia" (Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Obse

A biography of the famous seventeenth-century English scientist, Robert Hooke, who investigated light, sound, and microscopic organisms.

All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy,

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent

Hooke, Robert.