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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.