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== The Microscope and the English Imagination == | == 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" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]] | |||
: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. | |||
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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.