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Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
1667
Order to print by Royal Society on half-title.
Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke, S.R.S. and Geom. Prof. Gresh., and other eminent virtuoso's in his time
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703); Derham, W (1657-1735)
1726
Advertisements: p. [8]-[9] at end.
Microscopic observations : or, Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope, illustrated by thirty-three copper-plates, curiously engraved: whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow compass; and intermixed, occasionally, with many entertaining and instructive discoveries and observations in natural history
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703); Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
1780
An abridgment of the author's Micrographia, published in 1745, under title: Micrographia restaurata: or, The copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope, reprinted and fully e...
A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects
Albin, Eleazar (fl. 1713-1759); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
1736
Frontispiece and 53 plates are hand-coloured; in the numbering of plates, XXXV is repeated, and LII is omitted, as in the copy described in NUC. Albin's "Natural history of spiders" forms pp. 1-56, ...
An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations made by Robert Hooke
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
1674
"Hooke explains in his preface that this is the first of his Cutlerian Lectures to be published and that others will afterwards be printed in the same format so that they may be bound together. This l...
The posthumous works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S.... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society. In which I. The present deficiency of natural philosophy is discoursed of ... II. The nature, motion and effects of light are treated of ... III. A hypothetical explication of memory ... IV. An hypothesis ... of the cause of gravity ... V. Discourses of earthquakes ... VI. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life ... Publish'd by Richard Waller
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703); Waller, Richard
1705
With a half-title and 12 final pages of index and advertisements. Page 210 is misnumbered 209. The interuption in pagination is explained in a note at the foot of p.210, "two presses being employed in...