print email comment close Hooke's Books: Books That Influenced or Were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/hooke/ Description: This online exhibition features the work of Robert Hooke (1653-1703), a pioneer in microscopy. He was an artist, biologist, physicist, architect, and inventor, who is best known for his 1655 "Micrographia," an "exquisitely illustrated introduction to the previously unknown microscopic world." Features images of pages from this work and others, including by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), "Hooke's greatest student, rival, and successor." From the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Author: Greenberg, Stephen, curator Publisher: National Library of Medicine (NLM) LII Database Information: Record 26816 created by Barbara Bibel on 09/01/2008 Last modification on 09/11/2008 Published: 09/11/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26816