Publication date

1665

Topics

Microscopy, Physics, Light, Heat, Natural history

Publisher

London : Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their shop at the bell in S. Paul's Church-yeard

Collection

bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor

Boston Public Library

Language

English

Item Size

705.7M

Signatures: pi℗ø A℗ø a-g℗ø B-C℗ø D-2Ḱþ L-M℗ø

Engraved title page vignette (arms of the Royal Society); head- and tailpieces; initials

Errata: p. [10] at end

Title in red and black ink

With an initial imprimatur leaf by the Council of the Royal Society of London

Burndy. Science

ESTC

Garrison & Morton (5th ed.)

Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books

Norman 1092

PMM

Micrographia, or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses by Robert Hooke (1635-1703) contains the discoveries that Hooke made with his newly perfected compound microscope. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopic observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern calfskin double-panelled in blind. The bookplate of the BPL Townshend Fund is present on the front pastedown. Early marginalia is present on numerous leaves, including: O3 (verso), S1 (recto), S1 (verso), 2C3 (recto), 2E1 (verso), 2E3 (recto), and 2F3 (recto). The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page and all plates are marked with the ink stamp of the same

Addeddate

2015-08-11 18:13:01.435244

Associated-names

Allestry, James, -1670, printer; Martyn, John, active 1649-1680, printer; Royal Society (Great Britain), publisher

Call number

BRLL

Camera

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

External-identifier

urn:oclc:record:1049665471

Foldout_seconds

101

Foldoutcount

4

Identifier

micrographiaorso00hook

Identifier-ark

ark:/13960/t79s5cf92

Invoice

8

Ocr_converted

abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37

Ocr_module_version

0.0.21

Openlibrary_edition

OL25760791M

Openlibrary_work

OL17189104W

Page-progression

lr

Page_number_confidence

10

Page_number_module_version

1.0.3

Pages

384

Ppi

350

References

Burndy. Science, 18; ESTC R18004; Garrison & Morton (5th ed.) 262; Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books 50; Norman 1092; PMM 147

Scandate

20150817194837

Scanner

scribe9.boston.archive.org

Scanningcenter

boston

Worldcat (source edition)

864917476

Full catalog record

MARCXML

comment

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