Robert Hooke's microscope Pius IX Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

View of the proposed steam navigation dock at the mouth of the River Lea showing crowds observing the paddle steamers in the dock and raising their hats

Proposal for a covered riverside promenade in the Temple Gardens which would leave the gardens open to the Thames

The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat

Robert Hooke's microscope Pius IX Kirk DouglasIllustration of Robert Hooke's microscope, lens grinding machine and other instruments. Schem: I from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665