Robert Hooke's Micrographia
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Robert Hooke maintained from his experiments with microscopes that the human senses and human reason are inadequate means of understanding the natural world. HookeÆs Micrographia is a systematic account of the authorÆs scientific observations with a number of different optical lenses or microscopes. In the Age of Enlightenment, HookeÆs ideas and observations maintained that human reason and the senses were insufficient to accurately portray the natural world. Instead, he argues in Micrographia that microscopic enquiry is a surer means of offering objective and true insights into natural phenomena. This analysis will address two of the methods Hooke uses in Micrographia to sell his ideas to those outside of the Royal Society.In order to sell his ideas to those outside of the Royal Society, Hooke provides a number of examples in Micrographia to demonstrate the inadequacy and subjective nature of relying on only the senses. Micrographia offers intricately detailed drawings of Ho
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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