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Robert Hooke, "Micrographia"
Hooke's Micrographia. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was appointed curator of experiments at the Royal Society of London in 1662, shortly after its founding in 1660. He used a compound microscope to observe a wide range of specimens and then published the results of his remarkably detailed observations in Micrographia in 1665.
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