This work contains a verification of Torricelli's theory with its description of experiments using mercury and air.
This work ends with an analysis of the moon using descriptions from Hevelius and Ricciolus. It makes the inane distinction between "fantastic" and "metalline" colors. This work contains a verification of Torricelli's theory with its description of experiments using mercury and air. As an artist, the author of this work illustrated it with a louse, flea, and other insects. This treatise spends chapters examining blue mould, the juice and stinging points of nettles, and the "curious texture of seaweed." The most notable portion of this work contains a description of structures that look "porous in the manner of a honeycomb." For 10 points, name this work that contains "physical descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses," a work that used the term cell to describe individual compartments of cork, written by Robert Hooke.
This work ends with an analysis of the moon using descriptions from Hevelius and Ricciolus.
Micrographia