Micrographia restaurata, or, The copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope : reprinted and fully explained : 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

Title Variants

Alternative: Copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope

Alternative: Micrographia restaurata

Uniform: Micrographia

By

Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703

Baker, Henry, 1698-1774 , editor
Bowles, John, 1701-1779 , printer, bookseller
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764 , bookseller
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772 , bookseller

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for and sold by John Bowles, printseller at the Black Horse in Cornhill, sold also by R. Dodsley, in Pallmall, and John Cuff, optician, in Fleetstreet, MDCCXLV [1745]

Notes

An abridgment of the author's Micrographia, attributed by Keynes to Henry Baker; the plates are largely those of the original edition of 1665, with some omitted and some copied (as explained in the preface), and additional captions have been added and plate numbers changed to conform to the abridgement.

Signatures: [A]₂ B-R₂ [S]-[T]₂.

The final page of text is unnumbered; p. [2], [7]-[8] (third sequence) blank.

Title vignette; tail-pieces; horizontal chain lines.

Includes index.

ESTC, | T73384

Keynes, G. Bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke, | 10

National Library of Medicine. STC 18th cent., | p. 220

Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Cat. of printed books, | III, p. 296

Subjects

Early works to 1800 , Histology , Microscopes , Microscopy , Natural history , Pre-Linnean works

Call Number

QH271 .H66 1745

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173281
NAL: QH271 .H66 Ov.
OCLC: 1916589