An accurate, even wonderfull view on a small flea, but there was much more to discover at the time this engraving was made.
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A geologist riddle #5
An accurate, even wonderfull view on a small flea, but there was much more to discover at the time this engraving was made.4 comments:
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Image is from Hooke's "Micrographica", so I'm going with Robert Hooke. He did some work on surveying and map-making, didn't he?
ReplyDeleteRobert Hooke collected and studied fossils near his home town on the Isle of Wight. Later he was an early member of the Royal Society, where he was an experimenter and microscopist (hence the flea). He was also a surveyor (surveyed central London after the Great Fire) and architect (collaborating with Christopher Wren on many projects) and used local building stone--another geological connection
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JL and Howard got there before me but the who is surely Robert Hooke whose flea it is and who was also a geologist.
ReplyDeleteRobert Hooke is correct - here some considerations on him as geologist:
ReplyDeletehttp://historyofgeology.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-virtuoso-robert-hooke-and-his.html
his role is mainly overshadowed by similar research by Steno