Robert Hooke's drawing of a "blue fly" published in Micrographia,1665. Hooke (1635-1703) was curator of experiments at the Royal Society of London,which had been founded in 1660. Using a compound microscope to observe a wide range of specimens,he then drew & published the results of his remarkably detailed observations. This is an early representation of the insect compound eye. Reference: MICROCOSMOS,page 186 | |
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