Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them. — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according to her usual course… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The Designe of the Royall Society being the Improvement of Naturall knowledge all ways and meanes that tend thereunto ought to be made use… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image