Detailed likeness of a flea from Robert Hooke’s 1665 work, Micrographia.
This is a public domain image of an insect, specifically thought to be a flea. The cross-section appearance gives the subject an air of seeming suspended, almost like it was part of an insect collection. The drawing comes from Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of the minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. The work was published in 1665 and discusses Hooke’s advances in microscopes and telescopes and how they aid in studying specimens. Hooke was the first person to use the term “cell” to refer to the matter that comprises organisms, thinking they resembled monk’s cells.
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