M0005217: Robert Hooke's microscope, 1665

Date:
30 June 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/42/53
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M0005217: Robert Hooke's microscope, 1665. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Robert Hooke, Micrographia, detail: microscope

Description

Line drawing of a microscope published in Hooke, Robert: Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, London : Printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665

Publication/Creation

30 June 1937

Physical description

3 photographs sheet film negatives; 12.7 x 10.2 cm photographic print; 11.5 x 9.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/C/29309

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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