II.1 "an Animal in Quires"

Nehemiah Grew was not the first nor the most famous Royal Society member to make use of the microscope. Although working with a lens roughly one-third as powerfulAdam Max Cohen, Technology and the Early Modern Self (New York: Palgrave, 2006): 178. as the microscopes made by his contemporary Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek , Robert Hooke produced the most widely-read book on microscopy, his Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries thereupon.