Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm From a Picture by Iohn

From a Picture by Iohn Hoppner Esqr

eventually visiting London in the 1820s

President Andrew Johnson (who had taken office on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

Crypt of St Mary-le-Bow

Microscopic views of a fly Size:S: 45 x 30cm From a Picture by IohnIllustrations showing microscopic views of: the foot of a fly (Figs. 1 and 2); the windows of Hooke's room, reflected in the hemispheres of a fly's eye (Fig. 3); part of a fly's wing (Fig. 4). Schem. XXIII from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665