Robert Hooke's Micrographia

In the seventeenth century, Robert Hooke, the Polymath English Natural Philosopher who has been referred to as England's Leonardo da Vinci, brilliantly opened the eyes of the world to aspects of our universe that had before been invisible. He made some of the first detailed drawings of microscopic life. He coined the term 'cell' to describer the small segments he discovered when looking at a slice of cork . An Engineer of Microscopes, he documented what he saw in his inventions by means of written descriptions and beautiful drawing. Some of these were published in 1964 in a beautiful book entitle Micrographia. His achievements in Micrographia were balanced by his discoveries in Cosmology, measuring the distances between planets and describing the rings around Saturn, amongst other marvels.