Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries ThereuponHooke, Robert
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Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Hooke, Robert
Magnifying glasses -- Early works to 1800; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800; Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
I observ’d thirdly, that within that cleer liquor, they had a kind of dark
_mucous_ lining, which was all spread round within the cavity of the
clutter, and seem’d very neer adjoining to it, the colour of which, in some
Flies, was grey; in others, black, in others red; in others, of a mix’d
colour; in others, spotted; and that the whole clusters, when look’d on
whilst the Animal was living, or but newly kill’d, appear’d of the same
colour that this coat (as I may so call it) appear’d of, when that outward
skin, or _Cornea_, was remov’d.
Fourthly, that the rest of the capacity of the clusters was in some, as in
Dragon Flies, &c. hollow, or empty; in others fill’d with some kind of
substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with _fibres_
tending from the center or bottom outwards; and divers other, with various
and differing kinds of substances.
That this curious contrivance is the organ of sight to all those various
_Crustaceous_ Animals, which are furnish’d with it, I think we need not
doubt, if we consider but the several congruities it has with the eyes of
greater creatures.
As first, that it is furnish’d with a _Cornea_, with a _transparent
humour_, and with a _uvea_ or _retina_, that the Figure of each of the
small _Hemispheres_ are very _Spherical_, exactly polish’d, and most vivid,
lively and plump, when the Animal is living, as in greater Animals, and in
like manner dull, flaccid, and irregular, or shrunk, when the Animal is
dead.
Next, that those creatures that are furnish’d with it, have no other organs
that have any resemblance to the known eyes of other creatures.
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