Robert Hooke, Micrographia

• "by the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding."
• By this means the Heavens are open’d, and a vast number of new Stars, and new Motions, and new Productions appear in them, to which all the antient Astronomers were utterly Strangers.
• “The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with instruments, and as it were, the adding of artificial organs to the natural”