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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]] | ||
: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 | :: Into the privatest recess | ||
:Of her imperceptible Littleness. | ::Of her imperceptible Littleness. | ||
: 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. | ||
Revision as of 13:50, 5 August 2010
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.