Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was the great pioneer, but he was not alone. There had been a few who attempted what Hooke would famously accomplish, and many others who would follow, expanding and refining what Hooke had done by reading the tracts he left for them. Henry Power published before Hooke, but Power's book has only a few crude woodcuts. William Derham edited some of Hooke's works posthumously, including illustrations never before published.

Diagram of Hooke's microscope from Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.	Replica of a microscope built and used by Robert Hooke. Courtesy National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
Henry Baker drew precise plans for building microscopes that clearly used Hooke's instrument as their inspiration. He published them in The Microscope Made Easy, London 1742. See the NLM catalog record
	Mr. Wilson's single pocket-microscope Plate I The Microscope Made Easy London, 1742
Pocket Microscope Plate II The Microscope Made Easy London, 1742	The double reflecting microscope by Mr. Culpeper and Mr. Scarlet of Mr Marshall's large double microscope Plate III The Microscope Made Easy London, 1742
Measuring the real size of objects Plate V The Microscope Made Easy London, 1742	Box for preparing and applying objects Plate VI The Microscope Made Easy London, 1742

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Henry Baker drew precise plans for building microscopes that clearly used Hooke's instrument as their inspiration. He published them in The Microscope Made Easy, London 1742. See the NLM catalog record