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:Natures great Workes no distance can obscure, | :Natures 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 | ||
: | : Into the privatest recess | ||
:Of her imperceptible Littleness. | :Of her imperceptible Littleness. | ||
: | : 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. | ||
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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]]
- Natures 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.