That intro page is wild.
> Your Majesties most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant, ROBERT HOOKE.
This books marks publishing of discovery of the cell.
Canonical link: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15491>
Is there a resource that identifies every species that Hooke examined in this work? There were a few that I could not identify and was curious about.
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Fun fact:
Robert Hooke was rather short of stature. His great rival, Isaac Newton, was petty and vindictive. So when Newton said:
"if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Rather than being humble, he may have actually been having a sly dig at Hooke.