{"product_id":"micrographia-restaurata-cqngpp7s","title":"Micrographia Restaurata:","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new edition, said by Keynes to have been edited by Henry Baker (1698-1774), which includes thirty of Hooke’s original plates and with three re-engraved. A re-issue with a cancel title-page was published in 1780.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn intriguing coy of an 18th-century edition of Robert Hooke’s important \u003cem\u003eMicrographia.\u003c\/em\u003e The present copy contains many lengthy manuscript annotations and a number of additional drawings by an as yet unidentified owner which suggest a reader who was also experimenting with microscopes and familiar with many of the European natural history collections.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeynes writes of this edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The volume is said to have been edited by Henry Baker (1698-1774), author of \u003cem\u003eThe Microscope made Easy\u003c\/em\u003e, 1742. It is explained in the Preface that Hooke’s original copper-plates had recently been discovered, lacking seven, in good condition except for a little rust. The five plates of diagrams, with less popular appeal than the others, have been omitted. Comparison of the prints, with the original impressions in \u003cem\u003eMicrographia\u003c\/em\u003e shews that three, as noted above, have been re-engraved, and were therefore among the seven missing. The text has been reduced to brief descriptive notes. Though the pages are fewer, their area has been much increased, so that all the plates except those of the Flea and the Louse could be bound in without folding” (p.26)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present copy has a manuscript attribution to “Dr: Baker, F: R: S:” on the title-page and each of the plates have been carefully numbered. Many of the plates have pencil notes recording the number of degrees of magnification required in order achieve a comparative image with the engraved plate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate III which shows various examples of magnified hair has been extensively annotated in pencil and also incudes seven precise diagrams of additional specimens of related material including a porcupine’s quill and and a hedgehog’s quill. A manuscript note in ink at the foot of this section states:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These Figures [the hand-drawn examples as mentioned above] are representations of various transverse sections of different hair I saw in a large Dutch Collection of microscopic Objects. The above sections were the most curious of this set, \u0026amp; were mostly taken from the Hairs of large sea Fish. Difference in the shading will give an idea of the greater or less transparency of the various parts of the sections” (p.5).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Plate XVII “the scale of a soal fish” the reader has dawn their own diagram of the magnified “scale of a perch” in pencil in the upper margin. On the following page, the reader has drawn a diagram of what appears to be a bee sting next to the engraved image of the same specimen and again on the next page the reader has written in pencil:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I have made several experiments to prove this both w^th^ the stings of wasps \u0026amp; hornets, \u0026amp; have universally found that the stings were protruded through an hole at the end of the sheath, as Doctor [???] observes, \u0026amp; by no means through an orifice below it, as Dr Baker asserts.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the same page, in the fore-margin, there is also an inked noted which as been heavily deleted by which clearly reads: “Dr Baker’s certainly mistaken…” (p.31)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the margin of the section on “The Eye ad Head of a Drone-Fly” (p.36) \u003cstrong\u003ethere is a long ink note which extends the information in the printed text and also criticises the work of Hooke and Baker:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“…those hemispheres, as here calld, are all exact Hexagons, filld with a double convex Lense, these Hexagons are in the great Libella fly from the 1\/400 to y^e^ 1\/450 of an inch in Diameter. In the smaller Flys, from 1\/1000 to ye 1\/1200 of an inch. The pearls in ye Eyes of all insects almost are Hexagons. In the eye of a Lobster they are exact squares, in the crab they are hexagons, the squares of the Lobster’s eye are about 1\/400 of an inch each - It is amazing that Dr Hooke should have seen these Pearls of a Fly’s Eye so magnify’d as represented at Fig: 30 Pl:20, \u0026amp; yet not observe that they were Hexagons; and it is no less strange that Dr Baker should not have taken notice of this error, since a lens 1\/4 inch shews them very distinctly to a common observer, or an 1\/2 inch lens to a nice Eye, where the eye is of great Libella kind.” (p.36)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most densely annotated section is the chapter on the white feather-winged moth. \u003cstrong\u003eThe corresponding plate has 27 additional diagrams of feathers.\u003c\/strong\u003e A long series of notes below this states “those feathers which are mark’d with a x are from Moths. Feather 28 is from that beautiful insect the Curculio imperialis Braziliensis, which is perhaps the richest object in nature, \u0026amp; exceeds the most splendid jewellery in Brilliancy and variety of colours.” A small illustration of the Curculio Imperialis is provided with a note: “a general representation of the Figure \u0026amp; size of the Curculio, or Brazil Beetle, which in figure much resembles a Parrot. Its Coat or Colouring is throughout of a very black polish’d substance, thick set with Feathers that reflect the most splendid colours of all kinds. On the wings these Feathers are set in regular concaves divided both lengthways \u0026amp; across with black lines” (p.51)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the rear flyleaf is a pencil diagram of feather from the “wing of a very large E: India Butterfly” with some accompanying notes describing observations when the wing is magnified “400 times in length, so as to appear 57600 times larger than to ye naked Eye.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47844092903581,"sku":"243342","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/243342_01.jpg?v=1777372842","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/micrographia-restaurata-cqngpp7s","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}