Dr Allan Chapman Science Historian, Wadham College talks about Robert Hookes groundbreaking book Micrographia.

Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: 350 years on

A half-day symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, thought to be the first handbook of microscopy, and also to applaud recent new developments in molecular-scale microscopy as recognised by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the 2014 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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