Robert Boyle, “The Sceptical Chymist”, 1661 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Rudolph Virchow, “Cellular Pathology”, 1858 was also the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Robert Hooke, “MICROGRAPHIA, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Lenses”, 1665. The microscope that Robert Hooke made his observations for the book is shown BELOW.
In the history of science, Galileo Galilei and the “telescope”; are, the history of science equivalent of Robert Hooke and the “microscope”.
Here I presented: Robert Hooke, “MICROGRAPHIA, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Lenses”, 1665.
SUMMARY.
The subtitle of this book is “Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Lenses. This is book that coined the biological term “cell”. This definition of the “biological cell” was a historic event.
COMMENTS,
The “cell” contents is the subject of the science of Biochemistry. Today, biochemistry has completed the study of human chromosomes (shown ABOVE in standard notation).
BELOW the enumerated human cell chromosomes (1-22, XY are shown in table by the genes coding each cell chromosome.
The power of the “microscope” and Robert Hooke, “Micrographia”, 1665 rereading is still significant today.
