Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke.
- Robert Hooke
- Date:
- 1665
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nifh’d with eight well fhap’d and proportion’d legs, which are each of them joynted or bendable in eight feveral places, or joynts, each of which is covered, for themoft part, with a very tranfparent (hell, and the lower end of the fhell of each joynt is fringed with feveral’fmall hairs 3 the contrivance of the joynts feems the very fame with that of Crabs and Lobfterslegs, and like thofe alfo, they are each of them ter¬ minated with a very fharp claw or point 3 four of thefe legs are fo pla¬ ced, that they feem to draw forwards, the other four are placed in a quite contrary pofition, thereby to keep the body backwards when there is occafion. The body, as in other larger Infetts, confifts of three regions or parts 3 the hinder or belly A, feems covered with one intire fhell 3 the middle, or cheft, feems divided into two {hells B C. which running one within the other, the Mite is able to fhrink in and thruft out as it finds occafion, as it can alfo the fnout D. The whole body is pretty transpa¬ rent, fo that being look’d on againft the light, divers motions within its body may be perceived 3 as alfo all the parts are much more plainly de- lineable, then in other poftures, to the light. The fhell, efpecially that which covers the back, is curioufly polifht, fo that ’tis eafie to fee, as in a convex] Looking-glafs, or foliated Glafs-ball, the pifture of all the ob- jefts round about 3 up and down, in feveral parts of its body, it has fe¬ veral fmall long white hairs growing out of its fhell, which are often longer then the whole body, and are reprefented too fhort in the firft and fecond Figures 3 they feem all pretty ftraight and plyable, fa ve only two upon the fore-part of its body, which feem to be the horns, as may be feen in the Figures 3 the firft whereof is a profpeft of a fmaller fort of Mites ( which are ufually more plump) as it waspafant to and fro 3 the fecond is the profpeft of one fixt on its tail ( by means of a little mouth- glew rub’d on the obje<ft plate) exhibiting the manner of the growing of the legs, together with their feveral joynts. This Creature is very much diverfify’d in fhape, colour, and divers](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30326370_0330.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
