New Research challenges Wren’s insect illustrations
Christopher Wren has long been assumed to be the author of some of Micrographia’s insect pictures. Mark Jervis presents a reasoned argument against that view in his paper ‘Robert Hooke's Micrographia: an entomologist's perspective’.Micrographia (1665) - was, according to some historians, a formative work of the modern era. Following its publication, it had a rapid impact on natural philosophers, the intelligentsia, and the literate public. Its powerful influence has been partly attributed to the book’s numerous microscope-