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Abraham Cowley, "To the Royal Society" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]] | Abraham Cowley, "To the Royal Society" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]] | ||
:: | ::Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure, | ||
::No smalness her near Objects can secure | ::No smalness her near Objects can secure | ||
:: Y'have taught the curious Sight to press | :: Y'have taught the curious Sight to press | ||
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:: Y'have learn'd to Read her smallest Hand, | :: Y'have learn'd to Read her smallest Hand, | ||
::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand. | ::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand. | ||
Samuel Butler, "The Elephant in the Moon" [[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2214/searchFulltext.do?id=Z000293315&divLevel=0&queryId=&area=Poetry&forward=textsFT&print=No&warn=Yes&size=676Kb]] | |||
* about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon | |||
* includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice" | |||
other miscellaneous verse by Butler on the microscope: | |||
::When one, who for his Excellence | |||
::In height'ning Words and shad'wing Sense, | |||
::And magnifying all he writ | |||
::With curious microscopick Wit, | |||
::Was magnify'd himself no less | |||
::In home and foreign Colleges, | |||
::He that would understand what you have writ | |||
::Must read it through a Microscop of wit; | |||
::For evry Line is Drawn so curious there | |||
::He must have more then eies that reads it cleare. | |||
Revision as of 14:32, 5 August 2010
Nicolson, Marjorie. Science and Imagination. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956.
The Microscope and the English Imagination
Pepys buys microscope, Power's Experimental Philosophy, and Hooke's Micrographia; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170)
Abraham Cowley, "To the Royal Society" [[1]]
- Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure,
- No smalness her near Objects can secure
- Y'have taught the curious Sight to press
- Into the privatest recess
- Of her imperceptible Littleness.
- Y'have learn'd to Read her smallest Hand,
- And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand.
Samuel Butler, "The Elephant in the Moon" [[2]]
- about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon
- includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice"
other miscellaneous verse by Butler on the microscope:
- When one, who for his Excellence
- In height'ning Words and shad'wing Sense,
- And magnifying all he writ
- With curious microscopick Wit,
- Was magnify'd himself no less
- In home and foreign Colleges,
- He that would understand what you have writ
- Must read it through a Microscop of wit;
- For evry Line is Drawn so curious there
- He must have more then eies that reads it cleare.